Top 40 Rosie Jones Quotes

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It's easy to think, 'Oh I could be able-bodied,' but th

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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel that because I’m disabled, I can say a lot more things than able people perhaps couldn’t get away with.
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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.
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If I want to do something badly enough, I’ll make it work, disability or no disability.
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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.
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It’s in the British nature to go ‘Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.’
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No one finds me as funny as I find myself!
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I hope disabled people can see me on TV and think: if she can do it, I can do it.
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As a disabled comedian, often my hecklers are also disabled.
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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.
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When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.
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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.
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A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.
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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.
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As a disabled person, it can be seen to be really hard to go on holiday.
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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.
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I try to make sure that my disability never stops me from doing what I want to do.
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Growing up, I think I always knew I was different.
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I really think there’s a difference between people born disabled and people who become disabled.
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People say: ‘Oh, Covid only affects people with pre-existing health conditions,’ like that’s alright.
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I grew up in a little seaside town that I thought was absolutely rubbish and I couldn’t wait to leave.
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I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.
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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.
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I’m usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.
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How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.
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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.
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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.
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I live in London. But during lockdown I moved back to Yorkshire with my mum and dad.
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Because of my disability I do find that people can be a

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.
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A year living with your parents when you turn 30 has been ripe for comedy.
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It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or ‘different’ doesn’t stop somebody from achieving greatness!
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Growing up, there was nobody in TV or radio that looked like me – that sounded like me.
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I’m lucky enough to have a lot of writing work coming in which I can do from home.
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Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.
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