The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
BILL BAILEYMy wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
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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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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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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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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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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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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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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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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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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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This shed does not contain me.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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