Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Alexei Sayle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
Facts
Memory
Problem
Havens
Done
Haven
Recollections
Things
However
Loads
Problems
Recollection
Memories
Vivid
Actually
Load
Fact
Complicated
More quotes by Alexei Sayle
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
Alexei Sayle
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
Alexei Sayle
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle
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.
Alexei Sayle
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
Alexei Sayle
I always thought communism was crap, really.
Alexei Sayle
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
Alexei Sayle
You can't do comedy with a beard.
Alexei Sayle
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
Alexei Sayle
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
Alexei Sayle
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?
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
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
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
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
