Best 35 quotes of Alexei Sayle on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

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.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

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.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

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.

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

People aren't universally heroic.

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

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.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.