The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap. — 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
As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated,… — 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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look… — 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… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently… — 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'm terribly taken by the countryside, so I love things like shadows cast by deep woods. I love the autumn. I love… — 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
A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us,… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food everywhere. Pastas, salads, a vegetable plate… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 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… — 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
The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65,… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I'm tall with broad shoulders, and therefore, I like clothes with a bit of a swagger - mannish clothes that you can… — 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 think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always… — 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
