Quote

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

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
Interested
Think
Thinking
People

More quotes by 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
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
Image
You can't do comedy with a beard.
Alexei Sayle
Image
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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
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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
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 like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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 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
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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