Quotes By 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.

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.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

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

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

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

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

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

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.

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

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