The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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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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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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 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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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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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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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