Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Collins
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Joan Collins.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.
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.
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.
I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.
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.
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.
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'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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 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 dieting is bad for you.
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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.
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.
I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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.
I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.
I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.
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.
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 am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.
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.
Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
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.
I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.
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.
Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
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.
If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.
One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
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.
I have a lot of male friends.
I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
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.
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'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.
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.
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.
If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
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.
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