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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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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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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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