"If you travel to the States... they have……" — Alexei Sayle
"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"
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Alexei Sayle
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47 Quotes by Alexei Sayle
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A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep…
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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic…
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of…
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,
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Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and…
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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a…
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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