Quote

You can't do comedy with a beard.

Alexei Sayle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
Beard
Comedy

More quotes by Alexei Sayle

Image
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
Image
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Alexei Sayle
Image
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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.
Alexei Sayle
Image
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
Image
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle
Image
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
Alexei Sayle
Image
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
Alexei Sayle
Image
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
Alexei Sayle
Image
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
Alexei Sayle