People Quotes by Jo Brand

I like to shock people.

— Jo Brand

People can forgive each other.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

— Jo Brand

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

— Jo Brand

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's…

— Jo Brand

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these…

— Jo Brand

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made…

— Jo Brand

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

— Jo Brand

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless…

— Jo Brand

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

— Jo Brand

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful…

— Jo Brand

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death…

— Jo Brand

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there…

— Jo Brand

Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some…

— 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

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not…

— 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

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 think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people…

— Jo Brand

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…

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So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also…

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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…

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep…

— Jo Brand

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't…

— Jo Brand

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you…

— Jo Brand

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they…

— Jo Brand

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just…

— Jo Brand

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came…

— Jo Brand

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was…

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I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter…

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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest…

— Jo Brand

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference…

— Jo Brand

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of…

— Jo Brand

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle…

— Jo Brand

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do…

— Jo Brand

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…

— Jo Brand