If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
BILL BAILEYLive comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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This shed does not contain me.
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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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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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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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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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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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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
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The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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