Joan Collins Quotes
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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 have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.
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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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Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
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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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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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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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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 have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
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The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
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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 have a lot of male friends.
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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 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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My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
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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 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 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.
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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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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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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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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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I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.