Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
BILLY CONNOLLYWhen people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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 worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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