Billy Connolly Quotes



Best Made in Scotland Quotes by Billy Connolly

Made in Scotland Quotes

“After my knighthood was announced, a woman from the BBC came to Glasgow to interview me. We sat down in a lovely hotel in a nice part of town, and she hit me with her first question: This must mean a lot to you, with you coming from nothing?

I looked at her, and I laughed. ‘I didn't come from nothing’, I told her. ‘I come from something.’

I mean, I have never hidden that I come from humble stock. I grew up in the tenements of post-war Glasgow. In fact, I used to specify exactly where, onstage: it was on a kitchen floor, ‘on the linoleum, three floors up’.

The early years of my life were spent in grinding poverty but it wasn’t nothing. It was something – something very important.

There is this viewpoint that if you have come from the working class you have come from nothing, whereas the middle and upper classes are something, and I don’t hold with that opinion.

I think the working class is something. It is everything. They are the builders of society, and without them the whole house falls down.”

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“I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually become part of the earth. I would like a tree to be planted on top of me.

And I told my wife Pamela a long time ago the epitaph that I want on my gravestone: 'Jesus Christ, is that the time already?'

Failing that, I would like an epitaph in writing so tiny that visitors would have to inch right next to my gravestone to read it. It would say: 'You're standing on my balls'.”

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“Life can be tough, and you either give up and moan about it, or you have a go at it.”

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“People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it.

But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.”

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