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Billy Connolly
Scottish
Comedian
Born:
Nov 24
,
1942
Always
Go
Me
People
Think
You
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly
Funny
Army
Those
See
Wee
Red
Knives
Does
Always
Go
Wanted
Switzerland
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
Alone
Man
Trust
Try
Tea
Never
Left
Who
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.
Billy Connolly
You
Word
Made
Before
Think
Terrible
Because
Makes
Redundant
Been
Blow
Useless
Rotten
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.
Billy Connolly
You
People
Wonderful
Speak
World
Citizen
Some People
Think
Way
Some
Pretty
Delightful
Badly
Like
Just
Want
Little
Themselves
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
Billy Connolly
Algebra
Never
Know
Likely
Learn
Go
Should
Why
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
Billy Connolly
First
He
Name
Come
First Name
How
Mexican
Jesus
Jew
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 Connolly
Life
Day
Me
You
Every Day
People
Car
Drive
Become
Clothes
Live
Every
Changes
Type
Back
Once
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Wear
Life Changes
Mystery
Like
Know
Talk
House
Go
Where
Successful
Successful People
Your
Now
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly
Me
Pet
Parents
Tell
Take
Department
Used
Zoo
I don't aim to offend.
Billy Connolly
Aim
Offend
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
Billy Connolly
Myself
Comedy
Drawing
Find
More
More And More
Performance
Stuff
Days
Still
Acting
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Billy Connolly
Time
You
People
Speak
Hide
Dark
Cowardice
Sit
Hiding
Easy
Up
Get
Microphone
Front
Want
Act
Shout
Waste
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Billy Connolly
Me
Press
Something
Picking
Soon
Got
Scottish
Just
Successful
Reserve
Started
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
Billy Connolly
Love
Every
Angeles
Days
Los
Los Angeles
Itself
Two
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.
Billy Connolly
About
Delightful
Absolutely
Smashing
Read
Always
Go
Lot
Child
Wanted
Loved
Place
Japan
Used
I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. 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.
Billy Connolly
People
Thought
Somebody
Big
State
Must
Pictures
Come
Heads
Look
Understand
None
Amazed
Matrimony
Up
Comment
Anything
Them
Figure
Two
Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
Billy Connolly
You
Mother
Tell
Drink
Never
Head
Empty
Did
Your
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. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.
Billy Connolly
Good
You
Club
Gone
Manners
Loathe
Circuit
Say
Out
Tell
Come
Ticket
Concert
Concert Hall
Venue
Hall
Got
Dear
Different
Should
Element
Syllable
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
Billy Connolly
Saying
You
People
Arch
Audience
Always
Hear
Behind
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