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

Women, Rich, Motorcycle

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

Down, Road, 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, Honestly

I'm an intellectual.
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

Life, Sleep, Down

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

Stupid, Saying, Different

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

Death, Try, Works

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

Else, Seems, Material

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

Great, Stupid, Someone

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

Work, Everyone, Used

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

Greatest, Off, Eat

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

Tell, Showbiz, Memoir

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

Done, Problems, Fact

I always thought communism was crap, really.
Alexei Sayle

Thought, Communism, Crap

I am quite girly.
Alexei Sayle

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, Enough, Six

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

Life, Live, Why

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

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

Down, Road, Bit

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

Good, Trying, Psychology

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

Sorry, Expect, Consistent

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

Work, Politics, Nice

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

Weather, Influence, South

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

Age, Keep, Making

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

Time, Someone, Idea

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Nationality: British

Born: August 7, 1952

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