If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
BILLY CONNOLLYLife is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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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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