I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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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 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.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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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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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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American 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.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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