I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
BILLY CONNOLLYIn Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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