Quotes by Joanna Lumley

About Joanna Lumley:

Joanna Lamond Lumley is an English actress, voice-over artist, former model, author and activist, who starred in the British television series Absolutely Fabulous as Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, Jam & Jerusalem and Sensitive Skin. In film she has appeared in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) and James and the Giant Peach (1996).
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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

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I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.

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I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.

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It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food everywhere. Pastas, salads, a vegetable plate - I actually like ordering vegetarian in a meaty place because it gives them a jolt to come up with something a...

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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

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All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

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If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

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Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

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I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

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It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

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I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.

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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

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I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who mig...

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I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

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I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

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Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

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I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

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I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoanna Lumley
  • DescriptionEnglish actress and former model
  • BornMay 1, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Model; Author; Autobiographer
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire