Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
BILLY CONNOLLYLearn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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