Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
BILLY CONNOLLYI have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I’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.
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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 love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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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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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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