For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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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’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Don’t work out, work in.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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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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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 set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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