Alexei Sayle quotes

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. (Alexei Sayle)
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own. View quote
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. View quote
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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people. View quote
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. View quote
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If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't. View quote
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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 things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done. View quote
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that. View quote
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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. View quote
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First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets. View quote
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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. (Alexei Sayle)
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. View quote
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I always thought communism was crap, really. View quote
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather. View quote
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. View quote
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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 meet me are soon disabused of that notion. View quote
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. View quote
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s. View quote
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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. View quote
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s. View quote
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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 seemed to keep moaning about stuff. (Alexei Sayle)
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off. View quote
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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 your routines. View quote
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political. View quote
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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. View quote
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