Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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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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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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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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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