The more you know the less the better.
BILLY CONNOLLYTread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The 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.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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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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[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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