Top 120 Joan Collins Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

59. “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

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

— Joan Collins

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Joan Collins

64. “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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65. “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

66. “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

67. “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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68. “I have a lot of male friends.”

— Joan Collins

69. “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

70. “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.”

— Joan Collins

71. “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

72. “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

73. “If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you’re forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.”

— Joan Collins

74. “When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it’s a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.”

— Joan Collins

75. “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.”

— Joan Collins

76. “No, that’s what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you’re just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.”

— Joan Collins

77. “Of course it does on opening night, but I’ve never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.”

— Joan Collins

78. “I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.”

— Joan Collins

79. “I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.”

— Joan Collins

80. “I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.”

— Joan Collins

81. “Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because – yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.”

— Joan Collins

82. “You can’t help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.”

— Joan Collins

83. “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

84. “I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.”

— Joan Collins

85. “I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient ‘little woman’ type.”

— Joan Collins

86. “I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.”

— Joan Collins

87. “The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It’s a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.”

— Joan Collins

88. “Well I’ve written four beauty books as well.”

— Joan Collins

89. “I’ve become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It’s an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.”

— Joan Collins

90. “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

91. “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.”

— Joan Collins

92. “And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I’ve found my prince.”

— Joan Collins

93. “The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.”

— Joan Collins

94. “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

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95. “I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it’s radio, television, films, theater, I don’t care as long as I can get out there and do it.”

— Joan Collins

96. “If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous ’40s musical on video. But I’m very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I’m a ‘glass half full’ person. In fact, it’s three-quarters full!”

— Joan Collins

97. “I’ve fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it’s a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it’s men or women or babies.”

— Joan Collins

98. “I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?”

— Joan Collins

99. “I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.”

— Joan Collins

100. “Most of the time we’ve been living in England and now we’ve bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.”

— Joan Collins