I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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