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 Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go,… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat!… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop.… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share
