I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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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 Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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