[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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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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’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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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