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.
BILL BAILEYRelaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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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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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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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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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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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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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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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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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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