I’m a huge film star… but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f–ing minutes. I’m the only guy I know who died in a f–ing Muppet movie.
BILLY CONNOLLYA lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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 one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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