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
People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.
The more you know the less the better.
Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.
The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.
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.
When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.
I don't aim to offend.
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.