When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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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 can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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