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 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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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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 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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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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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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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