Quotes By Joan Collins

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 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.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

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 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.

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.

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.

I don't believe in dieting.

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

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

I have a lot of male friends.

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

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.