Bill Bailey

I love to watch birds and wildlife. ”

In 1994 I was doing a two-hander with Sean Lock in Edinburgh and there were more people in the cast than the audience. It was pretty grim, quite a chastening experience. ”

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. ”

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow. ”

I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives. ”

I think that generally there's a pressure to live the best life you can. ”

Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life. ”

I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It's worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies. ”

I think people are quite refreshed with politicians who aren't concerned with what Arctic Monkeys track they like, but with the day-to-day, dull business of politics. ”

Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland. ”