Alexei Sayle Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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’m fascinated by comedy.

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• I wanted to write about how people’s beliefs shift.

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• 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.

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• I’m an intellectual.

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• I’m distinct, really.

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• I’m still fiercely ambitious.

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

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

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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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• 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.’

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

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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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• Most of my friends are women – I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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• Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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Alexei Sayle (49)

Birth:	7th August, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author

About

Alexei David Sayle is an English stand-up comedian, actor and author. 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. Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on absurd and surreal premises. His act is noted for its cynicism and political awareness, as well as physical comedy.

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