People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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