I’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.
BILLY CONNOLLYNever trust people who’ve only got one book.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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[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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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.
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