There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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 don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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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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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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