In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this? — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I love wildlife, and I enjoy riding. You always know when there's a horse coming, from that clip-clop sound, but you don't get that with camels - they glide. I had to ride one across a road in Cairo, which… — 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 Image
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 Image
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — 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 my feet… — 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. People do… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
