Joan Collins Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

I don't believe in dieting.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

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.

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

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

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.

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

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

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

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him ... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

After a certain age you get the face you deserve.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

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

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

I have a lot of male friends.

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

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

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

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

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

Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.

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

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

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

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

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.

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

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

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

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.