Don’t work out, work in.
BILLY CONNOLLYI just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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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The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you’re a zombie. And you’re talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.
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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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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.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. … That can keep me awake for days.
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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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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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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 loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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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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.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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