I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
BILLY CONNOLLYDid your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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 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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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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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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