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Jo Brand Quotes

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 23, 1957

Topics

Comedy You Go Become Never Always

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

People Think Comedy You Appearance

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

Too Much Tax Washington Way Little

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Melissa McCarthy

Great World Thought Appreciate Why

If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it.

Space People You Three More Theme

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Work Struggle Mom Feeling Guilty

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

Michael T. Flynn

Women Decision Child Think Choose

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Family Community People Interesting

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

Talent Drawing Cannot Whatsoever

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.

Time Moment Without Fiction Delight

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

Work Character Me You Back Mentor

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Doing Days Got Been Theater Ever

The beauty of what Apple does at Apple is that they're not on trend; they are classic.

Beauty Apple Classic Trend Does

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