Alexei Sayle Quotes

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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 in their Jags and a…
• 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 git.
• 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 things I have actually done,…
• 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 then everyone's sick of you.
• Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
• 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.
• I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
• I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to…
• Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
• I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just…
• I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
• I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who…
• I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for…
• I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

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