If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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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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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 hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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