There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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