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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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 have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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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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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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Try to live in a place you like.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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 just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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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 vote, it only encourages them.
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The 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.
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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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