In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
BILLY CONNOLLYI set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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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 still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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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 hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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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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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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