Billy Connolly Quotes
I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I find the business world hard.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life-becoming a better person.
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The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
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If everyone were in accord and left things to Providence, their hearts would be at ease. If they are not in accord, though they would do acts of righteousness, they lack loyalty.
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As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
