Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. — Joan Collins

I admIre how she handled thIs. she was a wonderful, brave and a beautIful person and I love her. — Joan Collins

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that. — Joan Collins

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

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

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

The endless bonking was exhausting me. — Joan Collins

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women’s lives. — Joan Collins

Isn’t three quarters of life a guilty pleasure? — Joan Collins

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

I’m extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed. — Joan Collins

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

If life throws you a lemon–make lemonade. — Joan Collins

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

I’ve spent years when I’ve not been in the limelight at all and I’m perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. — Joan Collins

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

I don’t use e–mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life. — Joan Collins

I really hope that, as more people get vaccInated, we wIll move further along the path back to a more normal way of lIfe. — Joan Collins

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do all my own make–up, it takes me 10 minutes. — Joan Collins

I’m a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy. — Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I’m very happy here. — Joan Collins

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

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

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

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

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

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don’t use it, you lose it. — Joan Collins

The clothes were a huge part of what made ‘Dynasty’ fun. — Joan Collins

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. — Joan Collins

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

Making each day a mini lifetime–to achieve something and to enjoy something. — Joan Collins

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

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. — Joan Collins

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer. — Joan Collins

My mother use to call me ‘Miss Perpetual Motion’ because I rarely keep still. — Joan Collins

I’m older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. — Joan Collins

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

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

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

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight. — Joan Collins

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much. — Joan Collins

So–called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best. — Joan Collins

It’s just something that I like, and I also don’t buy into the ageism theory. — Joan Collins

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person. — Joan Collins

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

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

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

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. — Joan Collins

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. — Joan Collins

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

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don’t really need something is to get it for them. — Joan Collins

I think health is another exceedingly important thing. — Joan Collins