Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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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