Quotes by Joanna Lumley - Page 3

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. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Animal
Bird
Flower
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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 / Actress
Life Time Nature
Birds
Flowers
Come And Go
Life Nature Time
Seize
Trees
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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 / Actress
Coats
Department
Department Stores
Disgusting
Excuse
Fur
Selling
Appalling
No Excuse
Trim
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There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Behave
Crime
Fountain
Missing
Taught
Allowed
Badly
Drop
Fountain Pen
Litter
Pen
Steal
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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 had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Ambition
Trajectory
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I'm tall with broad shoulders, and therefore, I like clothes with a bit of a swagger - mannish clothes that you can wear with a lot of feminine, sweet tops. I put my own looks together - a favourite coat, a bit of vintage, a bit of high street.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Favourite
Feminine
Swagger
Vintage
Broad
Coat
Tops
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Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Painter
Skills
Women Are
Good Women Men
People Say
Simultaneously
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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 / Actress
Respect
Believe
Consideration
Deserving
Dog
Grew
Mean
Mother
Rats
Snakes
Spiders
Taught
Wildlife
Animals
Cats
Believing
Fish
Dogs
Early
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Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Danish
Ministers
Scotland
Ah
I Am Me Rest
Although
Bulk
Divide
Terribly
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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 / Actress
Boyfriend
Marriage
Despite
Doctors
Gossip
Jamie
Pregnant
Discussed
Entered
Sterile
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In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Messy
Paper
Petrol
Look People Looking
Drop
Look Looking People
Occupied
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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 / Actress
Brain
Realised
Temper
Governed
Uses
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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 / Actress
Bridges
Modern World
Scottish
Welsh
Effectively
Face Look World
Irish
Railways
Understandable
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It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food everywhere. Pastas, salads, a vegetable plate - I actually like ordering vegetarian in a meaty place because it gives them a jolt to come up with something and recognize the demand.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Demand
Ordering
Plate
Salads
Vegetable
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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 / Actress
Energy
Fit
Ill
Long
Meat
Vegetarian
Years
Eat
Less
Long I Am People
Full
Diseases
Say
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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 / Actress
Lamps
Lighting
Lit
Looks
Lovely
Stage
Ten
Picture
Good Look Bad
Badly
Photographs
Particularly
Taking
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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 / Actress
Breakfast
Dinner
Enormous
Lunch
Ready
Stomach
Quite
Cocktail
Helps
Snack
Wake
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Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Cameras
Work Out
Love Work Women
Love Work Men
Pretty Girls
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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 / Actress
Car
Concern
Fury
Hate
Interest
Might
Plastic
Reason
Hate Me People
Eat
Car Me Street
Bag
Utter
Drops
Fills
Street
Hand
Hedgehog
Lack
Litter
Other
Planet
Plastic Bag
Some
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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 / Actress
Able
Our Lives
Life Time Fear
Absolutely
Fat
Sure
Afraid
Becomes
Bite
By The Time
Leave
Older
Lose
Ruled
Sweeter
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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 / Actress
Athens
Enchanted
Greece
Huge
Islands
Secret
Me Know Something
Somewhere
Edge
Sprinkled
Wherever
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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 come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Granny
Hello
Mobile Phones
Phones
Photograph
Rubbish
Rabid
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Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Chickens
Cows
Eating
First Time
Meat
Pigs
Steak
Time Me Dead
Animals
Ate
Fish
Dead
Creature
Every Time
Looked
Realized
Suddenly
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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 / Actress
Marriage
Quality
Alive
Ghastly
Important
Listening
Little Things
Minutes
Nice
Nice Things
Quality Time
Three
Treats
Yelling
Little
Things
Just
Time Your Important
Doing
Down
Each
Still
Say
Means
Small
Over
Other
Phrase
Rather
Remembering
Rush
Shoulder
Sit
Taking
Than
Vital
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There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.
Joanna Lumley / Actress
Appetite
Bitter
Movement
Older Women
Men Women People
Younger
Attached
Camera
Women Men People
Loves
Masses
Pill
Swallow
Vigour
Younger People
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