Billy Connolly Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

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

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Should Have

• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

  Billy Connolly

  Travel, Winter, Scotland

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

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Men

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

  Billy Connolly

  Nuclear, Looks, Comedy

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

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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"

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Baby, Humor

• Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, People, Water

• I’ve come in and out of America for… well, I’ve lived here for 15 years. And I’ve played here for nearly 30 years. On and off. But I’ve always played to my fan base. And I can come and do two or three nights in New York or two or three nights in L.A., and all that. But when I go away, nobody knows I’ve been gone. You know, I don’t get reviewed or anything like that. So that’s why I’ve come back and done a longer time in a smaller place, in New York. It’s always the people who live here that get a chance to know me.

  Billy Connolly

  New York, Night, Years

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. March 7, 2007.

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

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

• 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

  Blow, Thinking, Make You Think

• 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

  Thinking, People, Citizens

• 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.

  Billy Connolly

  Atheist, Believe, Angel

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

  Billy Connolly

  Zoos, Parent, Pet

• 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.

  Billy Connolly

  Dog, Independent, Doors

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

  Billy Connolly

  Comedy, Fame, Euthanasia

• I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.

  Billy Connolly

  Eight, Done, Clubs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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

  Drawing, Acting, Stuff

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

• I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Children, Japan, Comedy

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