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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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 am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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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’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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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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