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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic. — Joanna Lumley

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it. — Joanna Lumley

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience. — Brian Lumley

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them. — Joanna Lumley

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head. — Joanna Lumley

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope. — Joanna Lumley

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all. — Brian Lumley

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn. — Joanna Lumley

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made. — Joanna Lumley

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is. — Brian Lumley

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag. — Joanna Lumley

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries. — Joanna Lumley

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist. — Joanna Lumley

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots. — Joanna Lumley

I prefer not to eat food that has a face. — Joanna Lumley

The future is a devious thing. — Brian Lumley

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley

The Army was my bread and butter. — Brian Lumley

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they? — Joanna Lumley

If I sounded like Joanna Lumley, I'd never shut up! — Michele Deppe

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence. — Joanna Lumley

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. — Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. — Joanna Lumley

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. — Joanna Lumley

I find it a great antidote ... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray. — Joanna Lumley

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day. — Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race. — Joanna Lumley

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely. — Joanna Lumley

My grandmother is a famous atlas. — Joanna Lumley

I'm aware of my body. — Joanna Lumley

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life. — Joanna Lumley

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself. — Joanna Lumley

Blood is the life. — Brian Lumley

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship. — Joanna Lumley

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. — Joanna Lumley

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life. — Joanna Lumley

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. — Joanna Lumley

I have friends who read my books in Greek. — Brian Lumley

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. — Joanna Lumley

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley

I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather. — Joanna Lumley

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. — Joanna Lumley

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. — Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol. — Joanna Lumley

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like. — Joanna Lumley

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else. — Joanna Lumley

I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted. — Joanna Lumley

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either. — Joanna Lumley

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap. — Joanna Lumley

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely. — Damian Hopley

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere. — Joanna Lumley

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work. — Brian Lumley

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. — Joanna Lumley

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus. — Joanna Lumley

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs. — Brian Lumley

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. — Joanna Lumley

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. — Brian Lumley

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons. — Joanna Lumley

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby. — Brian Lumley

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true. — Joanna Lumley

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love. — Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly. — Joanna Lumley