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title: "4 Badly Quotes By Joanna Lumley"
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> [There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/there-was-one-crime-during-the-whole-time-i-was-at-school-when-a/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/joanna-lumley-3717_allowed_there-was-one-crime-during-the-whole-tim_943640.jpg)

> [I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-ve-been-dealing-with-the-press-for-45-years-you-need-a-very-long/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/joanna-lumley-3717_always_i-ve-been-dealing-with-the-press-for-45_1645141.png)

> [Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/sure-good-things-can-go-badly-wrong-nevertheless-there-s-always/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/joanna-lumley-3717_another-day_sure-good-things-can-go-badly-wrong-neve_1952552.png)

> [I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-do-not-like-bad-photographs-i-don-t-like-to-be-badly-lit-there-is-a/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/joanna-lumley-3717_bad_i-do-not-like-bad-photographs-i-don-t-li_3073926.png)

## More by 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 easier to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-cut-my-hair-myself-and-colour-it-i-know-everybody-in-the/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/in-kenya-you-ve-got-the-great-birds-and-monkeys-leaping-through-the/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-m-a-pathetic-haggler-and-often-give-more-than-the-original-price/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-never-go-to-the-gym-i-can-t-be-doing-with-it-but-i-run-up-and-down/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-used-to-go-out-wearing-any-old-rubbish-no-make-up-nothing-but-since/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/all-the-trouble-you-will-cause-by-not-leaving-a-will-all-the/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 a lorry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-haven-t-got-a-very-sweet-tooth-but-i-love-salted-things-like-nuts-i/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-ve-never-been-interested-enough-to-have-a-career-trajectory-i-ve/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-m-not-terribly-good-at-three-page-recipes-i-tend-to-skip-bits-or/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/it-s-an-incredibly-difficult-thing-to-bring-a-giraffe-down-they-can/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 last bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/when-you-re-young-you-think-life-is-forever-but-it-s-finite-i-m-68-so/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/i-think-that-unless-you-can-take-judgments-of-right-and-wrong-like-an/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/you-only-have-one-go-at-life-which-is-thrilling-only-you-can-make/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/we-transported-eight-giraffes-and-there-are-now-nine-because-one-gave/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

> [Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-lumley/film-work-is-hard-work-it-s-long-days-and-quite-often-quite-dismaying/)

[Joanna Lumley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-lumley/)

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