Maureen Lipman

I do have opinions. Fortunately, I neither Twitter nor Facebook. My daughter forbids me to go on social media.

— Maureen Lipman

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear…

— Maureen Lipman

Dad was hopeless with money, even though he ran a business. We lived in a small terrace house and I vividly remember…

— Maureen Lipman

I've often unwittingly done the wrong thing; most things you mess up in life you do through nerves.

— Maureen Lipman

My mother, Zelma, was an influence on my career. When I was six or seven I started singing, imitating people like Eartha…

— Maureen Lipman

I've never done a drama series, and that's quite a mystery to me.

— Maureen Lipman

I'm full of ideas and general crackling chemistry and I can read the 'score' of a comedy as though it's a musical…

— Maureen Lipman

My whole family was very funny, each in their own way, and you had to be quick to get a word in.

— Maureen Lipman

I'm not looking at anyone on television and thinking: why do I never get those parts?

— Maureen Lipman

Though Maggie Smith and Judi Dench have done all right, there's not a lot of drama work out there for older actresses.…

— Maureen Lipman

Let's teach our daughters, and our sons I suppose: it is possible to say 'no' without rancour, without anger, without emotion.

— Maureen Lipman

I say yes when I mean no. I've done it all my life.

— Maureen Lipman

I have decent hair; it's one of the few things I like about me.

— Maureen Lipman

I drink hot water with lemon juice, a few drops of cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne and turmeric, and a little…

— Maureen Lipman

It's very fortunate to have had two soul mates in one lifetime.

— Maureen Lipman

Members of the public always want to know how we learn our lines, as though there was some mystery to the process.…

— Maureen Lipman

I have to look at myself in the mirror when I'm doing a play. I see what needs to be done, and…

— Maureen Lipman

For anyone who has heard recordings of Florence Foster Jenkins' performances in the 1930s and 1940s, she's always been the greatest diva…

— Maureen Lipman

I'm well on my way to becoming one of those grumpy old actresses with faces like crocodile handbags who live out their…

— Maureen Lipman

You're not going to appeal to everyone and you can't be too precious about that.

— Maureen Lipman

I inadvertently lobbed a boiled potato across the room at a palace lunch.

— Maureen Lipman

I've learned a lot from my daughter because she is my best friend and I sort of admire her, but I tread…

— Maureen Lipman

I think I'm very hard to cast - unless you go out on a limb. I don't look funny. I don't look…

— Maureen Lipman

I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in…

— Maureen Lipman

I have to admit that I wasn't much taken by Naples, Florida, or Eilat in Israel.

— Maureen Lipman