There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf you give people a chance, they shine.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t aim to offend.
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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’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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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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The more you know the less the better.
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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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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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 used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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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