Bill Bailey

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. ”

At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out. ”

I'm really grateful for the fact that I have full artistic control over my career. I can choose what film or TV projects I'm interested in doing. ”

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. ”

When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth. ”

London is a great place to be over Christmas. ”

I am pretty laid-back as a parent, but I do like a lot of activity. So I am constantly suggesting things to do that involve some physical activity: cycling, mountain biking and paddleboarding. ”

My grandparents would have big, long arguments that were entertaining and that's where I first noticed, and was thrilled by, political discourse. ”

In my twenties, I floated around for years, doing the odd theatre job but mainly leading a hedonistic lifestyle, getting intoxicated in plenty of different ways in plenty of different places. ”

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency. ”