Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
BILLY CONNOLLYWell, 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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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.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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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’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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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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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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