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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My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.
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A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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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.
