"People used to think I was just a……" — Alexei Sayle

"People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre."

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47 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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