Jo Brand Quotes

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Jo Brand

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 23, 1957

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

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I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

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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.

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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 think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

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

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It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

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Men are fantastic - as a concept.

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I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

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School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

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I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

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When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

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There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

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

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