If you give people a chance, they shine.
BILLY CONNOLLYI once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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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Try to live in a place you like.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in 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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