If you give people a chance, they shine.
BILLY CONNOLLYNow, 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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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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.
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