Alexei Sayle

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there…

— Alexei Sayle

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

— Alexei Sayle

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

— Alexei Sayle

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time,…

— Alexei Sayle

People aren't universally heroic.

— Alexei Sayle

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

— Alexei Sayle

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

— Alexei Sayle

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

— Alexei Sayle

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

— Alexei Sayle

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

— Alexei Sayle

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

— Alexei Sayle

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

— Alexei Sayle

I'm distinct, really.

— Alexei Sayle

You can't do comedy with a beard.

— Alexei Sayle

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

— Alexei Sayle

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad…

— Alexei Sayle

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

— Alexei Sayle

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their…

— Alexei Sayle

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

— Alexei Sayle

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

— Alexei Sayle

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert…

— Alexei Sayle

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

— Alexei Sayle

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…

— Alexei Sayle

“Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.”

— Alexei Sayle