Alexei Sayle Quotes

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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.

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People aren’t universally heroic.

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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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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’ve accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

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

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

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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

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The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

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I’m an intellectual.

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

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I always thought communism was crap, really.

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Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

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

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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.

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I’m distinct, really.

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I’m fascinated by comedy.

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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 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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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting – you want to tell people something they don’t know about.

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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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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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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.’

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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.

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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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I’m still fiercely ambitious.

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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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I wanted to write about how people’s beliefs shift.

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I am quite girly.

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But as in all cults, what’s central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you’re very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

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