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.
BILLY CONNOLLYMarriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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 don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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