Jo Brand Quotes
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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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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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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.
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I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
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Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
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I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.
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I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.
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I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
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I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
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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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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
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I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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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.
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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.
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
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The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.