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!
BILLY CONNOLLYSo, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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[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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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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