Quote

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

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
Hate
Hates
Stills
Cynical
Settings
Part
Setting
Still
View
Everything
Views
Dark
Natural
Default

More quotes by Alexei Sayle

Image
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Alexei Sayle
Image
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
Image
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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
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
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 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
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle
Image
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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
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
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
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
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
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
Image
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
Alexei Sayle