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Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
English Actress
Born: May 1, 1946
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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
Life You Young Think Bit Finite Forever Measurements Even Last
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. Joanna Lumley
Life Time Nature You Animals Trees Birds Seize Stuff Come Come And Go Know Most Make Learn Go Dies While Should Lives Flowers
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap. Joanna Lumley
You Age Kind Mental Onto Thrown Soon Reach Heap Scrap Certain Certain Age
The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.' Joanna Lumley
You Better Sex Older Think Maddening Could Understand Juliet Get Either Now Actor Play Thing
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
Good Birthday Older Would Knew Stuff Along Come Looked Always Next Forward
The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn. Joanna Lumley
Me You Few Press Given Never Had Learn Affairs Did After While
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they? Joanna Lumley
Clothes Out Because Labels Scratch Just Little Cut
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
Love Love Is Word Important More Idea Than Quite Romance To Love Much Chocolates Champagne
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
Work Wait Girl Films Coronation Hunting Never Had New Always Been After Again Avengers Street Dracula Bond Bond Girl
I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy. Joanna Lumley
Myself Mind Lose Energy Rage Would Temper About Road Like Also Because Governed Brain Up Die Anything Realised Used Uses Things Need
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
People Long Energy Say Eat Eaten About Never Vegetarian How Am Go Years Fit Get Diseases Flea Full Less Ill Meat Thing
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
Cats Made Mine About Bags Look Always Am Leather Chic Handbags Mean Prefer Meat Ever
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots. Joanna Lumley
About Something Industrious Quiet
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. Joanna Lumley
You Tells Nobody Like Looks
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance. Joanna Lumley
You Guidance Emotions Think Our Unless Way Moral Must Only Take Wrong Like Because Judgments Right Right And Wrong
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
Fur No Excuse Trim Some Had Like Excuse Selling Department Department Stores Just Stopped Disgusting Stores Which Production Appalling Coats Found
I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability. Joanna Lumley
Constraints Never Felt Social
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope. Joanna Lumley
Politics Hope Too Benevolent Would Impatient Could Never Because Go Dictator Want Far Albeit
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely. Joanna Lumley
Good Fashion You Picture Stage Everybody Say Bad Photographs Someone Ten Badly Taking Lighting Like Look Particularly Looks Makes Very Child Lit Lovely Which Lamps Then
I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work for Jean Muir as her in-house model. Miss Muir - as she will always be to me - was interested in everything. Joanna Lumley
Work Me Will Too Everything Books Seemed Never Miss She Always Answers Go Questions Model Wanted Interested Jean Her University
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting. Joanna Lumley
Will Our Minds Way Characters One-Way About Exciting Recycled Primordial Ideas Bourne Another Returns Soup Which Interesting Bodies Traveller
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
You Money Matter Humorous Ghastly About Look Always Got Taste Staggering Thing
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
Good Recipes Bits Berries Tend Involves Terribly Anything Skip Things
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn. Joanna Lumley
Life Good Morning My Life Sets Spent Has-Been Dawn Been Up Very Crack Getting Where Much Film Start Film Sets
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 do it yourself. Joanna Lumley
Myself Me Business Do-It-Yourself Yourself Hair Everybody Easier Colour Hairdressing Know Cut Much
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