In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
BILLY CONNOLLYI loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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 loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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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 don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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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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