I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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The more you know the less the better.
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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 don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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 became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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