I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
BILLY CONNOLLYOnce 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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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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