I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
BILLY CONNOLLYI spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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