Alexei Sayle Quotes

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

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• You can’t do comedy with a beard.

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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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• 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.

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• 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?

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

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• People aren’t universally heroic.

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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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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• Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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

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

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

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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 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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• 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’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’m still fiercely ambitious.

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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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