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
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
If you give people a chance, they shine.
A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
Never trust people who've only got one book.
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
Never trust anybody with only one book.
Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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.
I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.