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.
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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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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 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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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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