I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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