Jo Brand Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Feelings, Taught

• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, People, Effort

• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Thinking, Rude

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

• I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Smell, House

  "Comedy gold - Jo Brand's Barely Live". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

• On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Privacy, Married

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Shopping, Two

• For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.

  Jo Brand

  Baby, Children, Gay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Two, Tanks

• I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Sleep, Good Friend

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Long, Parent

• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Nice, Two

• Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.

  Jo Brand

  Morning, Children, Get Up

• If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Couple, Nice

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