Joan Collins
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.Collection: Beauty
One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.Collection: Diet
I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Fitness
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.Collection: Society
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Travel
I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.Collection: Amazing
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Attitude
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.Collection: Age
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
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.
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.
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.
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.
Well I've written four beauty books as well.
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.
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.
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
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.
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.
I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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.
And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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.
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.
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.
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
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.
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
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.
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.
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.
I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
I have a lot of male friends.
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.
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.