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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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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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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[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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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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 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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