Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYFame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLYTread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
BILLY CONNOLLYKilling a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
BILLY CONNOLLYLearn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
BILLY CONNOLLYNever trust people who’ve only got one book.
BILLY CONNOLLYSave the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
BILLY CONNOLLYA well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI 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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLYOutgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
BILLY CONNOLLYI spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
BILLY CONNOLLYA 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!”
BILLY CONNOLLYWithout arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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.
BILLY CONNOLLY