Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE FRGSis a British actress, voice-over artist, former model, author and activist. She starred in the British television series Absolutely Fabulous as Patsy Stone, as well as in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, Jam & Jerusalem and Sensitive Skin. In film she has appeared in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Trail of the Pink Panther, and James and the Giant Peach...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth1 May 1946
blessing granddaughter fit
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.
hard-work long location
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.
thinking mind bending
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.
bus being-true feels
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.
thinking men glamour
I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
fashion thinking clothes
I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.
faces vegetarian
I prefer not to eat food that has a face.
flower animal bird
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.
book skills judging
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
either juliet maddening
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.'
acceptable creepy divorced english-actress later married maybe seems socially
The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.
although bulk danish divide maybe ministers scottish terribly
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.
All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.
bin clothing concept goes item pop store time unwanted
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.