I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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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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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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