Bill Bailey

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1965 age 0

   Born

2. 2007 age 42

   CreditHot Fuzz

• RMRory McCann1 title
• DBDavid Bradley1 title
• CBCate Blanchett1 title
• CDChris Dickens1 title
• JBJim Broadbent1 title
• BNBill Nighy1 title
• SMStephen Merchant1 title
• PFPaul Freeman1 title
• DADavid Arnold1 title
• MFMartin Freeman1 title

• What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

• But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

• And just as he said that a feminist jumped out of a manhole - just jumped up and oh, and she didn't like that. That she didn't like that.

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Who photographs kebabs?

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Three blokes go into a pub. Well, I say three; could be four or five. Could be nine or ten, doesn't matter. Could have been fifteen, twenty - fifty. Round it up. Hundred. Let's go mad, eh - two-fifty. Tell you what, double it up - five hundred. Thousand! Oh, I've gone mad! Two thousand! Five thousand! (adopting auctioneer persona) Anyone? Five thousand, six thou, six thousand, ten thousand! Small town in Hertfordshire goes into a pub! Fifteen thousand blokes! Alright, let's go - population of Rotterdam. The Hague. Whole of Northern Holland. Mainland U.K. Let's go all the way to the top - Europe, alright? Whole of Europe goes - I say Europe. Could be Eurasia. Not the band, obviously, that's just two of them. Alright, continents - North America! Plus South America! Plus Antartica - that's just eight blokes in a weather station. Not a good example. Alright, make it a lot simpler, all the blokes on the planet go into the pub, right? And the first bloke goes up to the bar and he says "I'll

  Bill Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Instruments

guitar, piano

Genres

pop music

Education

King Edward's School, London College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, Westfield College