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People aren't universally heroic.

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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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.
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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.
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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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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.
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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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.
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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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.
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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
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