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Me Quotes by Jo Brand
- As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is…
- 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…
- Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
- 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.
- My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
- No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
- There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.
- To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
- We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I…
- I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,'…
- 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,…
- One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster…
- Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes…
- 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…
- There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to…
- There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it…
- My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale