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Alexei Sayle quotes

British Comedian August 7, 1952

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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. Alexei Sayle
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. Alexei Sayle
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. Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman..."
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. Alexei Sayle
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle
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.' Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying..."
I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. Alexei Sayle
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like "Brothers in Arms" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. Alexei Sayle
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. Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be..."
I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones,..."
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't. Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it..."
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. Alexei Sayle
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. Alexei Sayle
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. Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle quote: "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because..."
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. Alexei Sayle

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