Stalin Ate My Homework
A source page for quotes linked to Alexei Sayle.
“I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.”
“I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.”
“It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.”
“People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.”
“Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.”
“I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.”
“If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.”
“Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.”
“As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.”
“Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.”
“It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.”
“If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.”