#ow

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. ↗

— Jo Brand

#along #anything #because #children #comes

I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #before #ever #good #good laugh

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bore #children #death #effort #funny

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. ↗

— Mo Yan

#courage #i #know #real #true

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other. ↗

— Russell Brand

#each #had #her #me #mum

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

— Russell Brand

#because #lies #out #people #them

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. ↗