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Billy Connolly Quotes

"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."

"I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered."

"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days."

"I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place."

"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."

"I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys."

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."

"The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know."

"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
Marriage

"Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint."

"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards."

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