Jo Brand Quotes

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.

I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

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

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

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.

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

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.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

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.

Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

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

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

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

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

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

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

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

British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.