Joanna Lumley Quotes

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

You can't be 16 forever.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

I used to love getting older.

I feel a lot older than I am.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.