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.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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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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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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