| The Quotable Billy Connolly | |||||
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| Billy Connolly Quotes |
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| "In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes." "Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!" "There are two seasons in Scotland - Winter and July." It's very awkward to be kind of big in your own field. It limits what you're offered. People are swayed by the fact that you're a comedian or a musician or whatever they think you are. When it comes to choosing you, they get a bit shaky about offering you a different type of role. But I've really been very lucky. When you compare me to other comedians, I've been very fortunate. So you'll get no complaints. I'd never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I've been learning more about it as I've been doing interviews. I didn't even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they'd made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes! I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce -- my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions -- the absurdity of the thing. I'm now a Doctor of Letters. Most of them Fs and Bs." "Life for me is great. I'm a very f*****' wealthy person, I'm married to a very beautiful woman and I get laid with monotonous regularity." |
| Quotes About Billy Connolly |
| Quote:Billy Connolly is the Moses of comedy who had Ten Commandments - each one being 'Thou shalt be very ****** funny.' He helped stand-ups in the UK and Ireland find their own voice, as opposed to being totally influenced by American comics. He was about 10 to 15 years ahead of the scene in the UK. He influenced me hugely and I loved both his style of chatting personally to 2,000 people and of acting out scenes from stories. He was the first alternative stand-up comedian before there was a 'scene'. There was no one like him. He was playing characters on stage, ad-libbing and changing his material every time you saw him. Who said/wrote it:eddie izzard Quote:Billy is that very rare person who, on stage, can create an atmosphere of laughter around him. He has a complete honesty about him and a fluency in comedy that makes the audience believe that he can translate anything into laughter for them. The more comedians you see the more you understand what a rare gift that is. Most British comedians take themselves terribly seriously, which suggests that they've failed to learn one of Connolly's greatest charms - his absolute refusal to do so. Who said/wrote it:jack dee Quote:I remember watching Billy Connolly as a kid, and being totally bemused by his clothes and hair - I thought he was a mime artist or something. I loved his sketch about somebody knitting a balaclava for him, and him squinting because the eyeholes were in the wrong place! I laughed out loud and it made my belly ache. Who said/wrote it:comedian/actress fiona allen Quote:When I was 14 or 15 my dad and I listened to a tape of Billy Connolly and for the first time we both actually got the same joke. The sketch was about how 'women demand things - more of this and not half as much of that - and whenever you've met all their demands they'll ******* run away, so stay awake!' Me and dad found this so hilarious that the swearing was overlooked. Connolly has that ability to swear in a very ingratiating way - it's never aggressive and always done with a twinkle in his eye. Whereas lots of comedians go out on stage with set material and then go off on a tangent from time to time, Billy has a back catalogue so vast and a memory so good that he can be different every night. Who said/wrote it:comedian/presenter patrick kielty Quote: Who said/wrote it: Quote: Who said/wrote it: |
