Jo Brand quotes - page 4

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it. (Jo Brand)
Wild men are so enormously attractive. View quote
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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go. View quote
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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really. View quote
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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief. View quote
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As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan. View quote
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I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.' View quote
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Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you. View quote
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide. View quote
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you. View quote
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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before. (Jo Brand)
I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind. View quote
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People can forgive each other. View quote
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others. View quote
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men. View quote
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did. View quote
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I like to shock people. View quote
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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky. View quote
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I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. View quote
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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate. View quote
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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. (Jo Brand)
I'm a real Kentish maid, you know. View quote
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A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion. View quote
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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do. View quote
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You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. View quote
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