Joanna Lumley Quotes

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.

I`ve never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

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.

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.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic-as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and Oh, blue tongues!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can`t see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.

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.

The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.

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.

When you are in a country where nobody has ever seen television, people look at you with eyes that don`t know who you are.

At boarding school I even kept mice in my underclothes drawer. It made me smell most attractive, as you can imagine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It`s an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

I`m aware of my body.

I like to keep up the image of smoking, only because it`s getting such a bad press!

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.

Our cottage is high in the hills, not another house in sight, just some sheep, buzzards, running water and meadows of flowers. It`s lovely.

I don`t think we know what we`re going to get, so the idea of looking for somebody can make it wrong. Make friends and get a life.

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