Quotations and phrases - Joan Collins

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

And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.
-- Joan Collins

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

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

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

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.
-- Joan Collins

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

He's also very bright. Very knowledgeable about everything. And we agree about everything. He's my best friend. He's my partner. We share everything.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
-- Joan Collins

I don't believe in dieting.
-- Joan Collins

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

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.
-- Joan Collins

I have a lot of male friends.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

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.
-- Joan Collins

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

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

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.
-- Joan Collins

I think dieting is bad for you.
-- Joan Collins

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
-- Joan Collins

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
-- Joan Collins

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

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

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.
-- Joan Collins

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

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
-- Joan Collins

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
-- Joan Collins

Look, I'm an actress, Larry, I act. It doesn't matter - I don't consider myself a star like some people. I am a star, I can only do this.
-- Joan Collins

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.
-- Joan Collins

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
-- Joan Collins

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

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

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

Well I've written four beauty books as well.
-- Joan Collins

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

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