If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. Joanna Lumley More Quotes by Joanna Lumley More Quotes From 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 effortjobsthinking Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed. Joanna Lumley takenmotheranimal I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody. Joanna Lumley good-friendcatbook Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. Joanna Lumley locationhard-worklong I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good. Joanna Lumley milesgrowingthinking I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it. Joanna Lumley giraffelipsthinking They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas! Joanna Lumley my-grandmotheratlasgrandmother I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right. Joanna Lumley lionesslionsorder Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. Joanna Lumley freedom-of-speechpoliticalsuffering 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 kenyatreebird 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 kitchentoysbed 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 youqualitymarriagetime The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam. Joanna Lumley someonethinkshoppingtime 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 restyourselfyoulife I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol. Joanna Lumley drivelikelightswaste I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances. Joanna Lumley downbeingsingleoil 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 facelookthinkworld 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 pencrimetimeschool 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 womangoodwomenmen 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 mecarhatepeople
