A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
BILLY CONNOLLYIn Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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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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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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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 decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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