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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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