Jo Brand Quotes

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
Jo Brand

Food, Good, Made

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
Jo Brand

Judge, Find, Become

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

Sad, Person, Old

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.
Jo Brand

Time, Best, Revenge

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Jo Brand

Work, Felt, Audience

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.
Jo Brand

Work, Saying, Actually

I just don't like travelling very much.
Jo Brand

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
Jo Brand

Men, Mind, Bear

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

Yourself, Children, Someone

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Jo Brand

Feeling, Honest, Reading

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.
Jo Brand

Women, Nice, Important

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

Good, Hard, Laugh

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.
Jo Brand

Different, Try, Times

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
Jo Brand

Work, Time, Down

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.
Jo Brand

Care, Long, Quite

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
Jo Brand

Friends, Big, Actually

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

Great, Friends, Vote

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.
Jo Brand

Two, Getting, Lives

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

Laugh, Whether, Either

I like to shock people.
Jo Brand

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

Funny, Death, Children

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.
Jo Brand

Great, Different, Through

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
Jo Brand

Time, School, Sea

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
Jo Brand

Done, Far, Stuff

I thought I was funny as a kid.
Jo Brand

Funny, Thought, Kid

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Nationality: British

Born: May 3, 1957

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