Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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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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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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I don’t aim to offend.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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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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