Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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 don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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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Don’t work out, work in.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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