Jo Brand Quotes

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Jo Brand

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 23, 1957

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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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

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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 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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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

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I thought I was funny as a kid.

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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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Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

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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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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

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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.'

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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

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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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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.

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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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I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

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