Top 55 Joan Collins Quotes

I say, ‘Use it or lose it.’ I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

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

I don’t buy into you’re on the slag heap when you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don’t know them.

If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous ’40s musical on video. But I’m very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I’m a ‘glass half full’ person. In fact, it’s three-quarters full!

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

I’ve become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It’s an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

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

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

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won’t do that.

I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.

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.

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.

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 mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

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.

I’ve never been that keen on Shakespeare.

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.

If I hear the word ‘retire,’ it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

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 consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel – I feel I’m about 39, like Jack Benny.

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

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’m a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

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.

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 don’t look my age, I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

I don’t use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on ‘Dynasty’ to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

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.

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I’ve found my prince.

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.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him… My mother is British, but she’s of French extraction.

I think dieting is bad for you.

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 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.

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

I do think it’s very important, if you’re going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

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.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

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

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.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

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

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn’t call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

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

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

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid – just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

If life throws you a lemon – make lemonade.

Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I’m wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

I have girlfriends who’ve had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don’t even get me started.

I have a lot of male friends.