Quotes by Jo Brand

About Jo Brand:

Josephine Grace is an English comedian, writer and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You?.
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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

Jo Brand

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Jo Brand

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

Jo Brand

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

Jo Brand

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

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There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

Jo Brand

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

Jo Brand

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

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Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

Jo Brand

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Jo Brand

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

Jo Brand

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Jo Brand

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just...

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People can forgive each other.

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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to...

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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

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With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

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Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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Author Bio

  • NameJo Brand
  • DescriptionEnglish comedian
  • BornJuly 23, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComedian; Actor; Autobiographer