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.
BILLY CONNOLLYA fart is just your arse applauding.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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