Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly
William "Billy" Connolly, CBEis a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname "The Big Yin". His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welderin the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer, firstly in the Humblebums alongside friend Gerry Rafferty until 1971, and subsequently as a solo artist. In the early 1970s, he...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 November 1942
CityAnderston, Scotland
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Never trust people who've only got one book.