Joanna Lumley Quotes
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
Quotes to Explore
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.
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I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'
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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
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. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
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I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
