[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
BILLY CONNOLLYI have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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