Top 50 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

I am quite girly.

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

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'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.

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.

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'm still fiercely ambitious.

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