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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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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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Try to live in a place you like.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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