I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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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