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.
BILL BAILEYDo not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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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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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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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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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.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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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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