Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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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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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
BILLY CONNOLLY