When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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 used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I’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.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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