Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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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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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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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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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.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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