Jo Brand Quotes
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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.
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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 am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.
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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.
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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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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
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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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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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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'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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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
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When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
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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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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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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.
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The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
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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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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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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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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
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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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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.