The best Quotes by Joanna Lumley

The best Quotes by Joanna Lumley

Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist.

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. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

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Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

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Talking Hearing & Listening

They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown.

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But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school - where is she now? It didn't happen to men as much. Those boys often grew up to be masters of the universe. The super successful girls? They seemed to die of slow societal suffocation.

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Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

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"Semper paratus." "It's Latin," Shane said. "It means 'Always ready'."

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Doctors kept stressing that mental disease was the same as physical disease. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. Maybe, to be more charitable, it was because you could hide a mental disease.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Joe: "Would you allow me to buy you a drink?"
Maya: "What, from the free bar?"
Joe: "Have whatever you want. My treat."

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All around her, children and families played and laughed and reveled in the glory of this seemingly ordinary day. They did so without fear or care because they didn't get it. They all played and they all laughed and they felt so damn safe. They didn't see how fragile it all was.

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

21

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

36

Grandma & Grandpa are like stars... you can't always see them but you know - they're always there.

"Grandma, what is love?"
"It's the smile on your face as you think about me when you're grown up."

Grandparents Grandmothers

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

2

Laughing & Smile

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

4

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

3

Self-Confidence

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

1

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

1

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

14

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

13

Crying & Tears Rain

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

1

Failures & Mistakes

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

Klaus Kinski

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

1

The Kardashians

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves

3

Relationships Falling in love

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Samuel L. Jackson

Wealth & Richness

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

63

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

43

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