Jo Brand Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, People, Effort

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• With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

  Jo Brand

  Character, Mean, Oil

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• I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

  Jo Brand

  Singing, Trying, Relief

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• Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

  Jo Brand

  Funny, Thinking, Males

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• I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they tend to isolate them when they bully them. And women are often humiliated by it and feel they can't do anything about it. So my advice to women would be: there's always support around for those sorts of things and if you feel you're isolated in any way, or being bullied, you must talk to someone about it.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Men, Order

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• 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

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• 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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• I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

  Jo Brand

  Years, Laughing, Trying

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• Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

  Jo Brand

  Second Chance, Lasts, Firsts

  "Women - beware panel shows!". www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.

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• I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

  Jo Brand

  Real, Maids, Knows

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• I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

  Jo Brand

  Mean, Important, Dinner

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• I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

  Jo Brand

  Looks, Steroid

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• I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

  Jo Brand

  Nice, Moving, Thinking

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• Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

  Jo Brand

  Fats, Persons

  "Jo Brand proves she has excellent comic timing as the new voice of the Speaking Clock" by Ruki Sayid, www.mirror.co.uk. January 20, 2016.

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• One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug.

  Jo Brand

  Christian, Helping, Common

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• People can forgive each other.

  Jo Brand

  People, Forgiving

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

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• I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Way, Tough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once.

  Jo Brand

  Mean, Eye, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Reality, People, Tvs

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• Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

  Jo Brand

  Book, Laughing, Unattractive

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

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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.

  Jo Brand

  People, Way, Vote

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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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.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Thinking, Rude

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

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• Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Madness, Bad Things

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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.

  Jo Brand

  People, Cynical, Reason

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• In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

  Jo Brand

  Hair, Bridges, Punk

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