So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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The more you know the less the better.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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