Top 100 Joan Collins Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.
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#3. 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.
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#4. I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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!
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#7. Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.
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#8. I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
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#9. I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
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#10. I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.
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#11. I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
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#14. It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
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#15. I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.
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#19. Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
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#20. I mean, I'm a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn't have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we'd gulp it down. It was just great.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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#31. Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.
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#32. Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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#33. It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
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#36. When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.
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#38. I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.
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#39. There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.
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#40. I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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#41. 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.
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#42. I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.
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#43. Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.
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#44. I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
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#45. 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.
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#46. The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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#47. 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.
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#48. No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
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#51. I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?
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#54. I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
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#55. Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.
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#56. 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.
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#57. My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
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#58. When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'
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#63. Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
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#67. In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
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#68. I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.
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#69. I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.
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#70. I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
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#72. I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.
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#74. Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
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#75. I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.
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#76. You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
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#77. I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.
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#78. It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.
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#82. Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?
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#83. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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#84. My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him ... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
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#85. All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.
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#86. However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
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#91. Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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#92. When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
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#93. So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
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#94. 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!
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.
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#98. 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.
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#100. My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
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