Quotes by Alexei Sayle

About Alexei Sayle:

Alexei David Sayle is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. In the updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.
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Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

Alexei Sayle

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.

Alexei Sayle

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

Alexei Sayle

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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

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

Alexei Sayle

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Alexei Sayle

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

Alexei Sayle

You can't do comedy with a beard.

Alexei Sayle

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

Alexei Sayle

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

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 you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Alexei Sayle

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

Alexei Sayle

Author Bio

  • NameAlexei Sayle
  • DescriptionComedian
  • BornAugust 7, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Television Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Comedian; Author