I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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