Jo Brand Quotes

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.