Jo Brand Quotes
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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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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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What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?
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Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
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People can forgive each other.
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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 self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
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Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
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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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The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.
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You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.
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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
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I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
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A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
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When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
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So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
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When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
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What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
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I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
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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.
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'