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Billy Connolly

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I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.


— Billy Connolly


#believe #god #i #i believe #i believe in

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.


— Billy Connolly


#because #chasing #dogs #done #door

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.


— Billy Connolly


#been #before #blow #i #made

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?


— Billy Connolly


#first #how #jesus #jew #mexican

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.


— Billy Connolly


#different #different things #god #islam #judaism

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.


— Billy Connolly


#kind #mint #new #new kind #tactics

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.


— Billy Connolly


#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.


— Billy Connolly


#arch #audience #behind #hear #people

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?


— Billy Connolly


#drink #empty #head #mother #never

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.


— Billy Connolly


#autograph #back #being #cigarette #fame






About Billy Connolly

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Did you know about Billy Connolly?

In 1970 the Humblebums broke up with Rafferty going on to record a solo album: Can I Have My Money Back (1971). Connolly and his older sister Florence (named after their maternal grandmother) were cared for by two aunts Margaret and Mona Connolly his father's sisters who resented the children for the fact that they had to sacrifice their young lives in order to look after them. He became a good friend of the host Michael Parkinson and now holds the record for appearances on the programme having been a guest on fifteen occasions.

He is sometimes known especially in his native Scotland by the nickname 'The Big Yin' ('The Big One'). CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian musician presenter and actor. Connolly appears as the King of Lilliput in the 2010 remake of Gulliver's Travels.

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