Jo Brand Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“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.”

“It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.”

“Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.”

“I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.”

“I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.”

“Wild men are so enormously attractive.”

“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.”

“I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.”

“I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.”

“With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.”