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.
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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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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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 try to appreciate the simple things. I’ve just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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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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This shed does not contain me.
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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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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 quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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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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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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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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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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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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’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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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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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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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