Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
BILLY CONNOLLYBehind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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