Joan Collins famous quotes

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

#Funny #Birthday #Wine

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

#Beauty #Age #Getting High

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
-- Joan Collins

#Women #Memorable #Secret

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

#Pride #Faults #Ugly

Life is not life unless you make mistakes
-- Joan Collins

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Life Is

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
-- Joan Collins

#Beautiful #Mother #Giving Up

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.
-- Joan Collins

#Car #Ferrari #Body

I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dynasty' range, named after various characters. I find this saves a ton of time - as well as my own hair.
-- Joan Collins

#Character #Hair #Secret

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Reading #School #Thinking

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

#Parent #Difficult

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!
-- Joan Collins

#People #Greed #Junk

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Years #Living My Life #Limelight

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
-- Joan Collins

#Sexy #Lines #Lambs

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

#Girl #Years #Boring

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

#Thinking #Active #Persons

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Football #Fashion #Games

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Thinking #Skins #Sun

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Girl #Giving Up #Party

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
-- Joan Collins

#Kissing #Men #Smoking

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.
-- Joan Collins

#People #Trying #Conflict

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Long #Acting #Television

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.
-- Joan Collins

#Hollywood #Body #Today

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

#Husband #Men #Wife

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

#Phones #Numbers #Brain

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.
-- Joan Collins

#Discipline #Age #Devil

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.
-- Joan Collins

#Coffee #Exercise #Eggs

I think dieting is bad for you.
-- Joan Collins

#Thinking #Dieting

Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.
-- Joan Collins

#Eden #Lists #Actresses

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
-- Joan Collins

#Slag

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
-- Joan Collins

#Mind #Getting Older #Body

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?
-- Joan Collins

#Guilt #Three #Pleasure

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

#Hair #Facts #Bane

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.
-- Joan Collins

#Lazy #Shy