I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
BILLY CONNOLLYNever trust people who’ve only got one book.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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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 love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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The more you know the less the better.
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