Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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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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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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.
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