So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYI can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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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’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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