It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
BILLY CONNOLLYAs soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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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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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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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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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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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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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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