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.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t work out, work in.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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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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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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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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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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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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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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