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.
BILLY CONNOLLY[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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