Quotes By Alexei Sayle

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I'm an intellectual.

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?

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

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 am quite girly.

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.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.