Joanna Lumley Quotes
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I get bored easily.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I just lost interest in performing.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
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'Bonfire' was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when 'Jessica Jones' finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.
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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
