It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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