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
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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.
I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.
If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket.
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?
[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here
Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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.
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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.