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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.
Joan Collins -
I have a lot of male friends.
Joan Collins
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Well I've written four beauty books as well.
Joan Collins -
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
Joan Collins
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Joan Collins -
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins
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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.
Joan Collins -
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 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.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
Joan Collins -
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
Joan Collins
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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.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins -
I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
Joan Collins -
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.
Joan Collins