Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYPaddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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 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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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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