At boarding school I even kept mice in my underclothes drawer. It made me smell most attractive, as you can imagine.
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
I don't think we know what we're going to get, so the idea of looking for somebody can make it wrong. Make friends and get a life.
I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
I found the giraffe captures terrifying. It seemed such a brutal way of doing things-they use darts with a syringe as thick as five matches. It takes 10 minutes for the drug to take effect.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
I'm aware of my body.
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.
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
If people say, Oh, you look old as the hills, You say, I'm a grandmother, of course I look as old as the hills.
If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
It would be awful to be like Patsy or Edina. Luckily, we just act it, but I always think when we do it we look stupid and disgusting.
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
Just when I'd stopped thinking I ever wanted to get married again, along came Stephen. I wasn't looking for anything.
Knowing when to write a book about yourself is difficult. Leave it too late and you may be senile or dead, do it too soon and you look vain, opportunistic, or self-obsessed.
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
Our cottage is high in the hills, not another house in sight, just some sheep, buzzards, running water and meadows of flowers. It's lovely.
Part of me is still caught up with the 18-year-old model, or the 25-year-old struggling actress, or the 30-year-old high-kicking Purdey in The New Avengers.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any mammal in the world. Their skin is the tightest fitting to aid the circulation.
The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.
They must have thought I had talent.
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.
We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
When you are in a country where nobody has ever seen television, people look at you with eyes that don't know who you are.
You are bit like Cinderella, coming home and taking it all off and then going out to replant the bulbs in the garden.
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word-I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
Joanna is a Buddhist, having been born in India to Buddhist parentage.
In 2007, Joanna will be making a return to stage productions for the first time in over a decade in a play entitled The Cherry Orchard directed by Sir Jonathan Miller.
Joanna is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).
In 2006, Joanna received a honorary degree from the University of St. Andrews.
Joanna provided AOL (America Online) with the "Welcome To AOL" and "You Have Email" voice for UK customers.
Joanna appeared in a TV commercial for Thornton's Chocolate in 2004.
Joanna appeared in a TV commercial for Tiscali Broadband that aired from 2003-2004.
Joanna appeared in a TV commercial for Jordan's Country Crisp 2004.
Joanna appeared in a TV commercial for Thornton's Chocolate in 2003.
Joanna's father was a major in the Ghurka Rifles.
Joanna has an honorary degree from Oxford Brookes University.
Joanna received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1994 from Kent University in Canterbury "for her contribution to the entertainment industry and her active charitable work."
Joanna married orchestra conductor Stephen Barlow in 1986.
Joanna is an active campaigner for animal rights.
Joanna has one son, James (Jamie) Lumley, born in 1967, from a relationship with photographer Michael Claydon.
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