Joan Collins Quotes

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

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

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

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

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

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

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

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

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

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

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.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

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.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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

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

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.

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.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

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.

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.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

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.