Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
BILL BAILEYI 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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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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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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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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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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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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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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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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.’
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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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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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