Joanna Lumley Quotes

The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I'm doing. And I can do what Sean Connery can do. I can do what Clint can do. People even say I look a little like Clint. But that's just because I'm skinny and tall and old. With a receding hairline.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

I'd love to do a comedy. I always told myself that I don't have funny bones, and then I was working with Dervla Kirwan in 'Uncle Vanya,' and she was like, 'Lara, you're really, really funny.' And I realised I am, and that's not even me blowing my own trumpet.

I consider myself an actor who is funny.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

I'm an old bag for the most part on 'Game Of Thrones', so it's so lovely to be glamorous - as glamorous as you can be at my age!

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.