Joanna Lumley Quotes

• You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word – I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

  Joanna Lumley

• We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

  Joanna Lumley

• We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he’d been all over the place. I’d been working on films and television shows all over the world.

  Joanna Lumley

• Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you’re on show.

  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 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 find it a great antidote… lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

  Joanna Lumley

• I’ve never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

  Joanna Lumley

• 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.

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• I’m aware of my body.

  Joanna Lumley

• 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.

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Joanna Lumley (16)

Birth:	1st May, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Author, Model

About

Joanna Lamond Lumley was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. She is an English actress, former model, author and activist. She was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. She spent three years as a photographic model, notably for Brian Duffy, who photographed her with her son. She also worked as a house model for Jean Muir. She is an advocate and human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign. She supports charities and animal welfare groups such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals. Her role in several films include: The Breaking of Bumbo, Games That Lovers Play, The Plank, Innocent Lies, Prince Valiant, EuroTrip, Boogie Woogie, Late Bloomers, Absolutely Anything, and Finding Your Feet (upcoming 2018). Her role in television include: The New Avengers (TV series), Sapphire & Steel (TV series), Absolutely Fabulous (TV Sitcom, Won- British Comedy Award- "Best Comedy Actress" 1993, BAFTA TV Awards- "Best Light Entertainment Performance" 1993, and BAFTA TV Awards- "Best Comedy Performance" 1995), Nancherrow (TV film), and Sensitive Skin (TV series). She has written several books include: Stare back and smile (memoir), Forces Sweethearts, Girl Friday, In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon, No Room for Secrets, and Absolutely (memoir).

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