I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
BILLY CONNOLLYScotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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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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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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