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.
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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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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’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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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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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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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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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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