I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
BILLY CONNOLLYA lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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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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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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