Alexei Sayle Quotes

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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.
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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.
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.
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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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.
I'm an intellectual.
I'm distinct, really.
I'm fascinated by comedy.
I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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.
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.
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
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.
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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07 August, 1952
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