Alexei Sayle quotes - page 2

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. (Alexei Sayle)
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. View quote
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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 lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags. View quote
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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 then everyone's sick of you. View quote
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. View quote
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People aren't universally heroic. View quote
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You can't do comedy with a beard. View quote
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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else. View quote
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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. (Alexei Sayle)
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. View quote
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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 my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. View quote
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip. View quote
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I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. View quote
Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle

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Occupation: British Comedian
Born: August 7, 1952
Quotes count: 40
Wikipedia: Alexei Sayle

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