Joan Collins Quotes
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There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.
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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.
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Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
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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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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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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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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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I have a lot of male friends.
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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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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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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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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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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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I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
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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.
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I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
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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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I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
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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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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.
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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.
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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.