I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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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’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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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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Try to live in a place you like.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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