Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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More Bill Bailey Quotes
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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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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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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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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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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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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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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