Joanna Lumley

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by…

— Joanna Lumley

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers…

— Joanna Lumley

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

— Joanna Lumley

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash…

— Joanna Lumley

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a…

— Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

— Joanna Lumley

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

— Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is…

— Joanna Lumley

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne…

— Joanna Lumley

I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I…

— Joanna Lumley

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter…

— Joanna Lumley

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed…

— Joanna Lumley

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's…

— Joanna Lumley

I'm tall with broad shoulders, and therefore, I like clothes with a bit of a swagger - mannish clothes that you can…

— Joanna Lumley

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say…

— Joanna Lumley

I don't do girlfriendy sort of things, like shopping or going to spas. Spas fill me with horror. Frankly, I'd be more…

— 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

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy…

— Joanna Lumley

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

— 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

They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're…

— Joanna Lumley

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

— Joanna Lumley

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

— Joanna Lumley

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

— Joanna Lumley

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

— Joanna Lumley

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to…

— Joanna Lumley

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently…

— Joanna Lumley

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass…

— Joanna Lumley

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the…

— Joanna Lumley

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley

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

— Joanna Lumley

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your…

— Joanna Lumley

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It…

— Joanna Lumley

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

— Joanna Lumley

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly…

— Joanna Lumley

The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65,…

— Joanna Lumley

I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by…

— Joanna Lumley

Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the…

— Joanna Lumley

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

— Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

— Joanna Lumley