I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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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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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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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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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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