Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
BILLY CONNOLLYI spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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