When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Life 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.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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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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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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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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