Jo Brand Quotes
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
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Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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I thought I was funny as a kid.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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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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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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People can forgive each other.
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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.
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
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I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
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I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
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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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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
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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.