I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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