Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Rosie Jones

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

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.

I'm not that powerful but it's great that I'm allowed to do my job and talk about my life as a disabled person and hopefully sometimes people will laugh at that - sometimes they learn from that and if I do my job really well they laugh and they learn.

I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.

I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people.

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.

Like, if you don't want to talk to me it's your loss, and basically I'm a big deal so you should be bloody lucky to be talking to me.

Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' is just exceptionally written; every single line is a setup or a punchline.

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

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

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

Even though I have always been confident in myself, I have been apologetic for my disability in the past.

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

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

I think that the way forward now is more schemes and much more disabled people on TV: in sitcoms, in soaps. A disabled person reading the news would be the dream.

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

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

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.

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

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

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.

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

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

By Year 11, I was a shell of myself. My mum was a teacher in my school, so she could see that I was dimming my light there in comparison to who I was at home.

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 think as creatures we're incredibly sociable, and I do think comedy brings us all together.

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

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

I spent lockdown back in Yorkshire with my parents, which was... tricky! But it did remind me how beautiful my hometown of Bridlington is, with its beautiful beaches, wildlife, and lovely locals.

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

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.

Disabled people are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money.

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.

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

As soon as the audience thinks they know where I'm going, I switch it around.

Without a doubt, my life has been better because of the Disability Act.

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

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.

Disabled people used to be either the good person or the real evil villain. There's no way in between.

No one finds me as funny as I find myself!

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.

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

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

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.

I never came across a character who was brilliant, funny, flawed and just happened to have a disability. That's why I've written 'The Amazing Edie Eckhart.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.

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.