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.
BILL BAILEYI 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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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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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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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