English - Actress | May 1, 1946 -
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
Joanna Lumley
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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.
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I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
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My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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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.
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I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
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Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
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If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.
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In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
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