Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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 loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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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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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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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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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