Joan Collins Quotes
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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.
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.
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
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.
Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
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've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as 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.
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.
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.
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.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
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.
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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.
From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
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.
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.
And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
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'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 don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
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.
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.
