Jo Brand Quotes
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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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 used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.
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I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
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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 cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
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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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The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.
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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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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
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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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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 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 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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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'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 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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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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I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.
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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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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.