Jo Brand Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Jo Brand

  People, Actors, Good Actors

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• My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Army, Political

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Running, Cancer, Exercise

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• People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

  Jo Brand

  People, Criticism, Bitterness

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Christian, Home, Wind

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• Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

  Jo Brand

  Strong, Trying, Television

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• I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

  Jo Brand

  Fashion, Shoes, Shopping

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• Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Done, Grim

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

  Jo Brand

  Believe, Alzheimer's, Brain

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• Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

  Jo Brand

  Relief, Punk, Feminine

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• I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Self, People

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• To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Trying, Problem

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Littles, Potato Chips

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• 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

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• Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

  Jo Brand

  Dragons, Bird, Stereotype

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

  Jo Brand

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Kids, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

  Jo Brand

  Diaries, Miserable, Used

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• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  Jo Brand

  Nursing, Practice, Nurse

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• When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Stills

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• Wild men are so enormously attractive.

  Jo Brand

  Men, Wild Man, Attractive

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• I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

  Jo Brand

  People, Laughing, Purity

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Giving Up, Three, Four

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

  Jo Brand

  Nasty, Knows

  "Kicking off the bovver boots" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Grandma, People, Lucky

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