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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We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

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We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

Joanna Lumley

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Joanna Lumley

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Joanna Lumley

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

Joanna Lumley

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

Joanna Lumley

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Joanna Lumley

I'm aware of my body.

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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Joanna Lumley

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Joanna Lumley

I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.

Joanna Lumley

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Joanna Lumley

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

Joanna Lumley

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

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If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

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My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

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Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joanna Lumley

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

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I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

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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