It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf you give people a chance, they shine.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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 don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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