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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I always thought communism was crap, really.

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

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

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

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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

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