If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
BILLY CONNOLLYMarriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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 don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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