Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.
Billy ConnollyAs soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Billy ConnollyWell, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?
Billy Connolly