Top 40 Rosie Jones Quotes

It’s easy to think, ‘Oh I could be able-bodied,’ but throughout my life I always thought, ‘Yeah but I could also be even more disabled.’

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn’t an angel, because I am far from an angel.

Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We’re better than that. It’s frankly offensive and archaic and it makes me so angry I want to punch a wall.

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it’s a dialogue, an interaction.

I feel that because I’m disabled, I can say a lot more things than able people perhaps couldn’t get away with.

I just knew I had it, but my mum and dad were always great, and it was always a thing I had but a thing that wasn’t bad. It was just saying like, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, and I’ve got cerebral palsy.

If I want to do something badly enough, I’ll make it work, disability or no disability.

I have Ataxic Cerebral Palsy, which happened at birth. I was starved of oxygen and didn’t breathe for fifteen minutes, which I really wouldn’t recommend.

It’s in the British nature to go ‘Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.’

No one finds me as funny as I find myself!

I hope disabled people can see me on TV and think: if she can do it, I can do it.

As a disabled comedian, often my hecklers are also disabled.

There was nobody I could follow and look up to so I decided to be that person, to be the leader. If we were in the media more, it would make disabled people’s lives much easier.

When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

I had an education at a mainstream school, I went to university, I got a job and with my cerebral palsy have been a successful and independent human being and I am proud of who I am.

As a disabled person, it can be seen to be really hard to go on holiday.

School was tough. My ‘friend’ group consisted of two girls I had known since Year 7. We initially got on well but as the years went on, they’d tell me I was too loud, too in-your-face, that I laughed too much.

I try to make sure that my disability never stops me from doing what I want to do.

Growing up, I think I always knew I was different.

I really think there’s a difference between people born disabled and people who become disabled.

People say: ‘Oh, Covid only affects people with pre-existing health conditions,’ like that’s alright.

I grew up in a little seaside town that I thought was absolutely rubbish and I couldn’t wait to leave.

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that mum and dad could drive me to and pick me up from. I couldn’t ever imagine living on my own and having a job that I wanted to do. Because I never saw it.

I’m usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

I’m just one person with one experience, so really on ‘Question Time’ and in my comedy day job I just say: ‘Hello, I’m Rosie, I’m disabled, this is my view of the world.’ If you agree with that, if you can take similarities with that, great, but I never assume that I’m grand enough to speak for a fifth of the country.

My walk. Let’s clarify this: you’re not allowed to laugh at my walk but I am. Most times I am in control of my leggies, but occasionally they have a mind of their own, and the little flicks can be very funny.

I live in London. But during lockdown I moved back to Yorkshire with my mum and dad.

Because of my disability I do find that people can be a bit uncomfortable around me, so I’ve always had one-liners and jokes in my back pocket ready in case someone felt a bit awkward.

A year living with your parents when you turn 30 has been ripe for comedy.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or ‘different’ doesn’t stop somebody from achieving greatness!

Growing up, there was nobody in TV or radio that looked like me – that sounded like me.

I’m lucky enough to have a lot of writing work coming in which I can do from home.

Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.

I pride myself on being excellent at fancy dress, and I have dressed up as Ronald McDonald, Lady Gaga, a Christmas pudding and a crocodile to name but a few.

Growing up, I’d heard so much about Barbados. It was where my parents spent their honeymoon and they also spoke about the time they took me when I was three years old.

I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.