There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
BILL BAILEYI spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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