Quotes By Alexei Sayle

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

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.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

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.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

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.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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.