Jo Brand quotes - page 5

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls. (Jo Brand)
I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people. View quote
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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. View quote
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. View quote
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Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. View quote
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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether. View quote
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If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension. View quote
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I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding. View quote
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People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up. View quote
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff. View quote
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Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny. (Jo Brand)
I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations. View quote
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I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it. View quote
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral. View quote
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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that. View quote
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I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally. View quote
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. View quote
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I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days. View quote
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I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well. View quote
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I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke. View quote
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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that. (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. View quote
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy. View quote
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it. View quote
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets. View quote
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