Top 120 Joan Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don’t use it, you lose it.”

— Joan Collins

52. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Joan Collins

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Joan Collins

72. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

80. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

93. “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

94. “When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.”

— Joan Collins

95. “Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.”

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

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

— Joan Collins

98. “But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.”

— Joan Collins

99. “There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman’s body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.”

— Joan Collins

100. “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