Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
