I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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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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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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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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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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