I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
BILLY CONNOLLYActing is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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