Quotes By Alexei Sayle

People aren't universally heroic.

I'm distinct, really.

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

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

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

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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?

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

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.

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

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

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.

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

I'm fascinated by comedy.

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 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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm an intellectual.

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