Jo Brand

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

— Jo Brand

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

— Jo Brand

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

— Jo Brand

Wild men are so enormously attractive.

— Jo Brand

People can forgive each other.

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I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

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I like to shock people.

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I thought I was funny as a kid.

— Jo Brand

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

— Jo Brand

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

— Jo Brand

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

— Jo Brand

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

— Jo Brand

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

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

— Jo Brand

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and…

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

— Jo Brand

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

— Jo Brand

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different…

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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…

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I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the…

— Jo Brand

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I…

— Jo Brand

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a…

— Jo Brand

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying:…

— Jo Brand

I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're…

— Jo Brand

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse…

— Jo Brand

Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you…

— Jo Brand

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly…

— Jo Brand

I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway…

— Jo Brand

For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and…

— Jo Brand

I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they…

— Jo Brand

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

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I just don't like travelling very much.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand