Top 120 Joan Collins Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”

— Joan Collins

2. “I’m extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.”

— Joan Collins

3. “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

4. “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”

— Joan Collins

5. “Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.”

— Joan Collins

6. “Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.”

— Joan Collins

7. “Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.”

— Joan Collins

8. “The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.”

— Joan Collins

9. “The endless bonking was exhausting me.”

— Joan Collins

10. “Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.”

— Joan Collins

11. “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.”

— Joan Collins

12. “I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I’ve seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of seventy-five who are young. As long as I look after myself physically, mentally and emotionally, I’ll stay young.”

— Joan Collins

13. “It’s no one’s fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?”

— Joan Collins

14. “All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.”

— Joan Collins

15. “The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.”

— Joan Collins

16. “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.”

— Joan Collins

17. “I’m a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.”

— Joan Collins

18. “Making each day a mini lifetime – to achieve something and to enjoy something.”

— Joan Collins

19. “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.”

— Joan Collins

20. “Isn’t three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?”

— Joan Collins

21. “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

22. “I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don’t use it, you lose it.”

— Joan Collins

23. “I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.”

— Joan Collins

24. “Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women’s lives.”

— Joan Collins

25. “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.”

— Joan Collins

26. “I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.”

— Joan Collins

27. “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!”

— Joan Collins

28. “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.”

— Joan Collins

29. “The clothes were a huge part of what made ‘Dynasty’ fun.”

— Joan Collins

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30. “Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I’m needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.”

— Joan Collins

31. “However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it’s a really strong tool.”

— Joan Collins

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32. “I have girlfriends who’ve had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don’t even get me started.”

— Joan Collins

33. “So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.”

— Joan Collins

34. “Life is not life unless you make mistakes.”

— Joan Collins

35. “And the truth is I’ve always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.”

— Joan Collins

36. “I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.”

— Joan Collins

37. “If I hear the word ‘retire,’ it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?”

— Joan Collins

38. “I think, Larry, one of the things is I’m a very active person.”

— Joan Collins

39. “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

40. “My mother use to call me ‘Miss Perpetual Motion’ because I rarely keep still.”

— Joan Collins

41. “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.”

— Joan Collins

42. “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.”

— Joan Collins

43. “Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.”

— Joan Collins

44. “I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.”

— Joan Collins

45. “I think dieting is bad for you.”

— Joan Collins

46. “The easiest way to convince my kids that they don’t really need something is to get it for them.”

— Joan Collins

47. “After a certain age you get the face you deserve.”

— Joan Collins

48. “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.”

— Joan Collins

49. “I’ve always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.”

— Joan Collins

50. “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