Top 50 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

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

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

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

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

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

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.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

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

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