Charlie Brooker Quotes

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I'm injury-prone, which isn't true. You just don't know me.

I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

People tend to shy away from tall guys who dance, but hey, we can make it look good, too!

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

I never fancied myself having a prejudice towards people with tattoos. I personally don't have any and I don't think that I do, but I do see that people treat me differently with tattoos. People get out of my way.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.