Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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Try to live in a place you like.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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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 decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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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 don’t aim to offend.
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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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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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