Top 50 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

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.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

I'm distinct, really.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

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

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.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.