Quotes By Joan Collins

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

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.

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

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

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'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 don't believe in dieting.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.