Joan Collins Quotes

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.

According to my sister Jackie, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not, I've divorced people for that

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own Dynasty range, named after various characters. I find this saves a ton of time - as well as my own hair.

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.

I don't believe in dieting.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

I think dieting is bad for you.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.