[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
BILLY CONNOLLYMarriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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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 religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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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The more you know the less the better.
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