People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
BILL BAILEYTonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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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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The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to 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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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 suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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This shed does not contain me.
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