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.’
BILL BAILEYToughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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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 think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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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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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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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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