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…

— 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…

— Joanna Lumley

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash…

— 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.…

— Joanna Lumley

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so…

— 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…

— 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…

— Joanna Lumley

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper…

— 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.

— 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…

— Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is…

— 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…

— Joanna Lumley

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies…

— Joanna Lumley

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

— Joanna Lumley

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of…

— Joanna Lumley

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us,…

— Joanna Lumley

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their…

— Joanna Lumley

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

— Joanna Lumley

I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

— Joanna Lumley

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

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter…

— Joanna Lumley

I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look…

— Joanna Lumley

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked…

— Joanna Lumley

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