Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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 hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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 think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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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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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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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