Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe more you know the less the better.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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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 think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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