I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t vote, it only encourages them.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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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 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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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