Alexei Sayle

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

"I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death."

"I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes."

"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"

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