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.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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