Jo Brand Quotes
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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 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.
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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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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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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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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
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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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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
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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 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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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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Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
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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 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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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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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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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
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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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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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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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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.