91 Quotes by Alexei Sayle

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.

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

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.

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

If sitcoms were easy to write, there’d be a lot of good ones, and there aren’t.

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

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

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

People aren’t universally heroic.