For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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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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 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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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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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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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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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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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