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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
Actor
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Comedian
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Nurse
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
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Wandsworth Town
Josephine Grace Brand
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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 back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
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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.
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Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.
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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 a psychiatric nurse.
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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 pleased not to spend any more time with boys.
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
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Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?
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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
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It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
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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 people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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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 ways.
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
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I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career.
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I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.
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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
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