I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
BILLY CONNOLLYAmerican sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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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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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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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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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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