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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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