Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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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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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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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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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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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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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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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