Quote

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

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
Meet
Common
Cracking
Idea
Hyper
Someone
Suppose
Ideas
Jokes
Going
Notion
Time
People
Soon

More quotes by Alexei Sayle

Image
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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'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.
Alexei Sayle
Image
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
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
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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
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
Image
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
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
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
People aren't universally heroic.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
Alexei Sayle
Image
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Alexei Sayle
Image
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
Alexei Sayle