I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
BILL BAILEYI suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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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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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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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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This shed does not contain me.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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Stupid National Anthem… Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? “Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit.”
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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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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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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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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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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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 way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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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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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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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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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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