Top 120 Joan Collins Quotes (2025 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. “Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.”

— Joan Collins

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

— 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. “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

11. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

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

— Joan Collins

19. “I’ve never yet met a man who could look after me. I don’t need a husband. What I need is a wife.”

— Joan Collins

20. “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.”

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

22. “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.”

— Joan Collins

23. “I say, ‘Use it or lose it.’ I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.”

— Joan Collins

24. “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

25. “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.”

— Joan Collins

26. “Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break – and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.”

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

28. “If life throws you a lemon – make lemonade.”

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

30. “My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I’d have to work for everything.”

— Joan Collins

31. “Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them – your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.”

— Joan Collins

32. “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

33. “I don’t believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.”

— Joan Collins

34. “Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn’t call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.”

— Joan Collins

35. “My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she’s of French extraction.”

— Joan Collins

36. “I’m a woman for all seasons. I mix ‘n’ match, do designer and high street – keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.”

— Joan Collins

37. “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

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38. “I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn’t add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, ‘I’m amazed. She’s a nice looking girl, but nothing special.’”

— Joan Collins

39. “I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel – I feel I’m about 39, like Jack Benny.”

— Joan Collins

40. “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

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

— Joan Collins

42. “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

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43. “I have a lot of male friends.”

— Joan Collins

44. “I mean, I’m a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn’t have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we’d gulp it down. It was just great.”

— Joan Collins

45. “My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.”

— Joan Collins

46. “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

47. “I don’t believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.”

— Joan Collins

48. “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

49. “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

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

— Joan Collins