Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
BILLY CONNOLLYWisdom 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’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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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 started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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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