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BILLY CONNOLLYI hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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 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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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