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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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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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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