[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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