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Bill Bailey

I grew up in a little town be...

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.

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Bill Bailey

One of the things I do really...

One of the things I do really appreciate is that my audiences tend to be a wide range of ages and backgrounds, and I ascribe that to putting in the hours.

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Bill Bailey

Comedy is an indoors thing, s...

Comedy is an indoors thing, so I take every opportunity to go outside. A lot of that involves finding places that are remote, or places where you can look at birds, or do mountain biking or paddle boarding or walking.

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Bill Bailey

If you're going to perform, y...

If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.

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Bill Bailey

You spend a lot more time on ...

You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there's space to allow your imagination to take flight.

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Bill Bailey

The worst thing is when peopl...

The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph. You will get a much better one than just the side of my face.' Sometimes they just run off. They can't cope.

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Bill Bailey

My grandparents lived with us...

My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.

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Bill Bailey

There is something very poign...

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

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Bill Bailey

I'm an omnivore, although I a...

I'm an omnivore, although I am trying to eat less meat. I went vegetarian for about two years, then I suddenly got a craving one morning and that was it.

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Bill Bailey

I didn't have any brothers or...

I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.

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Bill Bailey

Paddle boarding: it's the clo...

Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.

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Bill Bailey

I think happiness really happ...

I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.

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Bill Bailey

The two worst enemies of come...

The two worst enemies of comedy are lack of sleep and not having had a decent meal.

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Bill Bailey

People perceive me as this ki...

People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain.

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Bill Bailey

Normally, with stand-up, it's...

Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on you. Your own thoughts. You have to sort of modulate your own performance.

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Bill Bailey

At yoga you get some sense of...

At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude. You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly.

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Bill Bailey

If I'm a national treasure, d...

If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point?

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Bill Bailey

In a way, I wish none of it h...

In a way, I wish none of it had ever happened - Facebook, Twitter - if it had never happened the world would have just carried on serenely. It's utterly redundant and yet we all have to be involved in it somehow.

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Bill Bailey

When I was 15, I went to see ...

When I was 15, I went to see the Stranglers at Bath Pavilion. I saw Jean-Jacques Burnel take off his bass and whack a skinhead over the head with it because he gave a Nazi salute. I thought: 'This is brilliant!'

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Bill Bailey

I discovered I'm 60 per cent ...

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

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