I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
BILLY CONNOLLYI started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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 a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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