Billy Connolly Quotes (32 Quotes)


    outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease.

    I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

    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.

    What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find

    For years I thought the club's name was Partick Thistle Nil.


    But still, I kept thinking, if I'm still troubled by this, if I'm still carrying it around like a big rucksack full of bricks and my father's dead, I need someone to tell me how to get rid of this great weight. . . . The most awful thing was that it was kind of pleasant physically, you know. That's why nobody tells.

    I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

    My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

    Marriage is a wonderful invention. But then again, so is the bicycle repair kit.

    Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

    I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys.

    My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

    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..

    The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

    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.

    The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started

    I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

    If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

    I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

    The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

    Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

    It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

    I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

    I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.

    I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

    There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

    I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

    Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.


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