I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
BILLY CONNOLLYI set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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