Joanna Lumley
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
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.
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.Collection: Bored
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Bus
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.Collection: Flower
Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.Collection: Another Day
I prefer not to eat food that has a face.Collection: Food
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it awayCollection: Blessed
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.Collection: Remembrance
I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Blessing
The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all.Collection: Congratulations
I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.Collection: Order
I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.Collection: Mirrors
I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.Collection: Men
They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!Collection: Grandmother
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.Collection: Mother
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.Collection: Hard Work