Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Collins - Page 3

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 can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.

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

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

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

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

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.

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.

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

Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

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

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.

All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.

And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.

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

The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

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