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.
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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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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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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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