Joanna Lumley Quotes
I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.
