I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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 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 hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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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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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.
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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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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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