So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYIf Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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 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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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The more you know the less the better.
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