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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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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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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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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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