I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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