I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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 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 used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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