Alexei Sayle Quotes

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

Please pardon me for suggesting that if the papers, like yours, which heretofore have persistently garbled, and misrepresented what I have said, will now fully and fairly place it before their readers, there can be no further misunderstanding…

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.