I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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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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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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???’
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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