Joanna Lumley
Related KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes. VANESSA MINNILLO MARIO TESTINO My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day... ALICE EVE I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to... ROSARIO DAWSON KALEY CUOCO You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I... CLAY GUIDA BRAD PITT CRAIG GROESCHEL DAVID BOWIE I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm ... PAUL WELLER CHRISTOPHER MELONI BEHATI PRINSLOO SALMA HAYEK Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don'... DAVID NIVEN In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&... MATTHEW RHYS JACOB DEGROM FRANK ABAGNALE DEEPIKA PADUKONE AASIF MANDVI I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When ... NIGEL REES CONOR MCGREGOR BEN VEREEN I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe... JOHN SAXON Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything... DALEY THOMPSON JERRY LEWIS I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started. CHARLEY PRIDE I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#... CATHERINE TATE MICHAEL CAINE I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I'v... EVAN PARKER DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving ... PADDY CONSIDINE Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to g... JAMIE DORNAN LEONARDO DICAPRIO CHERIE LUNGHI I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older... MARIA BELLO CHARLES SCHWAB I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first. VINNIE JONES Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join ... LARS VON TRIER CARRIE ANN INABA Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, be... LANA PARRILLA I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked ar... ALOE BLACC I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a l... BARRY HUMPHRIES I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to. JACK GLEESON ELTON JOHN KIM RAVER But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really im... JANE LYNCH That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.&... LUCY PUNCH PAULA COLE LAUREN GRAHAM CHRIS CORNELL All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention wh... CAREY LOWELL STELLA MCCARTNEY HUGH MASEKELA I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job... KELLY BROOK But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckie... NORMAN WISDOM I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ... ESTHER DYSON ELIZABETH WURTZEL BUDDY HACKETT Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't acces... JORDAN GAVARIS You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets... A.J. STYLES AARON NEVILLE Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been ... ED WESTWICK DAVID COSTABILE MAYER HAWTHORNE MAYER HAWTHORNE CAT DEELEY I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. EDDIE MARSAN I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish ... EOIN COLFER LOUIS THEROUX I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique. SKYLAR LAINE CLIVE OWEN When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what&#... MALIK JACKSON JOHN CENA I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I'v... JAMES ARNESS I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make e... NAYA RIVERA I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the ... WALTER JON WILLIAMS I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quic... LARA FLYNN BOYLE I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've... IWAN RHEON HOWARD SCHULTZ THOMAS MALLON People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b... HAYDEN PANETTIERE But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you... JEFFREY BERNARD I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r... EAZY-E For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I... BONNIE LANGFORD DAVE GROHL I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to t... LARRY HOGAN And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD VIDYA BALAN JERRY HALL I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I&... LATA MANGESHKAR PHIL COLLINS FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to... LESLIE JAMISON TOM STOPPARD I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've g... STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I ge... BELLA HEATHCOTE I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so qu... BIRDY I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard t... BOO WEEKLEY
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I was never into makeup when I was younger, and I still love not piling on the makeup every day, but... 
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but... 
I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I t... 
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value ... 
Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once... 
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the... 
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. ... 
I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live... 
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to m... 
When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a... 
Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it t... 
I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations... 
I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought ... 
I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Eve... 
I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town ... 
What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. ... 
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one ... 
I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nai... 
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ... 
I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. W... 
I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been o... 
When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all ... 
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you&... 
As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that... 
I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day ... 
As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. ... 
I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it u... 
Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old i... 
I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to ha... 
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you... 
I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart. 
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can ... 
If you get to the point in your career where you're running with a gun - I've yet to run wit... 
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.... 
I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn... 
I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it'... 
As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. 
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I real... 
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think... 
I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. ... 
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got. 
Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You'... 
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabi... 
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old mo... 
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite... 
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to t... 
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier b... 
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? P... 
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is. 
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And... 
Good-morrow to thy sable beak,
And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,
Thy crimson moon and azure ... 
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them ... 
No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel li... 
I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.