Quotes By 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.

I don't believe in dieting.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

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

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.

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

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

I have a lot of male friends.

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.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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