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
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I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
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I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
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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.
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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
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I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.
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I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.
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I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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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.
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I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.
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We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.
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I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.