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I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.
- Joanna Lumley
#Bond
#New
#Street
#Wait
#Work
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 of life.
- Joanna Lumley
#Forever
#Last
#Life
#Think
#Young
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
- Joanna Lumley
#Feathers
#Journey
#More
#Next
#Nice
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
#Afraid
#Children
#Day
#Find
#Why
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
- Joanna Lumley
#Anything
#Effort
#Job
#Looking
#Show
Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
- Joanna Lumley
#Champagne
#Important
#Love Is
#Love
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
- Joanna Lumley
#About
#Industrious
#Quiet
#Something
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
- Joanna Lumley
#Apply
#Construction
#Learn
#Skin
#Space
I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'
- Joanna Lumley
#Energy
#I Am
#Long
#Never
#People
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
- Joanna Lumley
#Friendship
#Glamour
#Men
#Sense
#Women
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
- Joanna Lumley
#Early
#Fish
#Mean
#Mother
#Respect
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.
- Joanna Lumley
#Blood
#Face
#Look
#Never
#World
If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.
- Joanna Lumley
#Britain
#Either
#Live
#Then
#Want
I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
- Joanna Lumley
#Always
#Cats
#I Am
#Look
#Mean
A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!
- Joanna Lumley
#Fat
#Fear
#Life
#Lose
#Time
I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.
- Joanna Lumley
#Day
#Heart
#Love
#Will
#Wonder
I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
- Joanna Lumley
#Father
#Gossip
#Marriage
#Me
#Stop
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
- Joanna Lumley
#Dress
#I Can
#Lovely
#Make
#Tears
I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.
- Joanna Lumley
#Breakfast
#Dinner
#Good
#Lunch
#Tea
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
#Bring
#Difficult
#Down
#Feet
#Lion
If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.
- Joanna Lumley
#Charity
#Fun
#Love
#More
#World
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 out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.
- Joanna Lumley
#Edge
#Know
#Me
#Place
#Secret
I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
- Joanna Lumley
#Antidote
#Find
#Great
#Lipstick
#Mirrors
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
- Joanna Lumley
#Drive
#Maniac
#Petrol
#Reasonable
#Waste
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 else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
- Joanna Lumley
#Blame
#Free
#Life
#Rest
#Yourself
I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.
- Joanna Lumley
#Always
#Birthday
#Forward
#Good
#Next
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
- Joanna Lumley
#Alive
#Doing
#Marriage
#Nice
#Quality
#Time
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
- Joanna Lumley
#Bag
#Car
#Hate
#Me
#Street
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