I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
BILLY CONNOLLYWho discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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