Joan Collins Quotes
"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
"I don't believe in dieting."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Dieting)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: People, Attitude, Being, Countries)
"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
(Related: Love, Acting, Care, Television, Theater)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Old)
"Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Opportunity, Career, Waiting)
"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
(Related: Life, Girls)
"Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Eating, Variety)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Autobiography, First, Years)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Beauty, Food, Health, Books, Eating, Habits)
"And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Frogs, Now)
"I have a lot of male friends."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Friends)
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Age, Wine)
"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
(Related: Fashion, Football, Want)
"If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Life)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Work, Actor, Actors, Now, Opera, Respect)
"Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Love)
"Well I've written four beauty books as well."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Beauty, Books)
"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Life, Questions)
"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Beauty, Being)
"The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Kids)
"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."
- Joan Collins
(Related: People, Loneliness)
"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
(Related: Wife, Husband, Man)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Sister, Class, English, First, School, Writing)
"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Life)
"I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person."
- Joan Collins
"I think dieting is bad for you."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Dieting)
"I think health is another exceedingly important thing."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Health)
"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."
- Joan Collins
(Related: America, Drama, England, Order, Queen)
"I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Now)
"I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things."
- Joan Collins
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Mistake)