Alexei Sayle Quotes
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I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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I'm distinct, really.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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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.
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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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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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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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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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I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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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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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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I'm an intellectual.
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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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I am quite girly.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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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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People aren't universally heroic.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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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.