149 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed – remember you can go anywhere.

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

I’ve never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

If you’re an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

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.

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.