Joan Collins Quotes
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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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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
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What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
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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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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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I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.
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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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I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
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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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Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.
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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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If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
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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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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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My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.