There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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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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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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