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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
— Joanna Lumley
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
— Joanna Lumley
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
— Joanna Lumley
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
— Joanna Lumley
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
— Joanna Lumley
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
The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
— Joanna Lumley
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
— 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'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
— Joanna Lumley
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
— Joanna Lumley
I prefer not to eat food that has a face.
— Joanna Lumley
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
— Joanna Lumley
If I sounded like Joanna Lumley, I'd never shut up!
— Michele Deppe
I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
— Joanna Lumley
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
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.
— Joanna Lumley
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
— Joanna Lumley
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
— Joanna Lumley
I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.
— Joanna Lumley
My grandmother is a famous atlas.
— Joanna Lumley
I'm aware of my body.
— Joanna Lumley
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.
— 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 easier to do it yourself.
— 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 is really like.
— Joanna Lumley
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
— 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 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
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
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
— Joanna Lumley
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
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
— Joanna Lumley
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
— 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
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
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
I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.
— Joanna Lumley
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
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
— 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 can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.
— Joanna Lumley
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
— Joanna Lumley
