I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLYSometimes 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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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 have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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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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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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[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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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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