My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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 hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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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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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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