Alexei Sayle famous quotes

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

#Hate #Dark #Views

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Thinking #Live Your Life #Should

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Ideas #People #Common

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Weather #Spain #Influence

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

#Character #Age #Stuff

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Dog #Opportunity #Bones

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Mean #Necks #Forget

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Writing #Years #Challenges

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

#Pique

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Thinking #People

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Years #Comedian #Dying

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Writing #People #Belief

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Men #Space #May

People aren't universally heroic.
-- Alexei Sayle

#People #Heroic

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

#Thinking #People #Stuff

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Spring #Thinking #Ideas

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Parent #Political #Constant

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

#Years #Cities #House

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Nice #People #Nice People

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

#Sorry #Politician #Consistent

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

#Careers #Comedy #Easier

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

#Way #Being A Woman

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Littles #Building

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

#People #Want #Memoir

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Summer #Nice #Winter

You can't do comedy with a beard.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Beard #Comedy

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

#Buffets #Eras #Firsts

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.'
-- Alexei Sayle

#America #President #Different

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Party #Nuance #Belief

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

#Mind #Sometimes #Feds

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Cities #Cobblers #Charity

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

#Writing #Easy #Sitcom

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Sleep #Performing

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

#Brother #Stupid #Band

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Play #Sick #Tvs

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,
-- Alexei Sayle

#Israel #States #Jimmy

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.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Memories #Vivid #Facts

I always thought communism was crap, really.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Communism #Crap

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Trying #Grind #Comic

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Stupid #President #Different

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Alive #Lawyer #Used

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

#People #Motorcycle #Fur