I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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 decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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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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