Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
BILLY CONNOLLYdidn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Don’t work out, work in.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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 don’t aim to offend.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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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 don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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