Joan Collins
Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.Collection: Each Day
The endless bonking was exhausting me.Collection: Endless
Life is not life unless you make mistakesCollection: Inspirational
After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.Collection: Age
Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.Collection: Kissing
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Thinking
According to my sister Jackie, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not, I've divorced people for thatCollection: Sex
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.Collection: Air
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.Collection: Men
I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.Collection: Tabloids
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Hollywood
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.Collection: Design
All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.Collection: Home
It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.Collection: Theory
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.Collection: Men
I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.Collection: Drama
There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Crush
And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.Collection: Country
Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.Collection: Hair
I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of seventy-five who are young. As long as I look after myself physically, mentally and emotionally, I'll stay young.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Beautiful
Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?Collection: Guilt
From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: School
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.Collection: Mean
Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.Collection: New York
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Night
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.Collection: Writing
I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.Collection: Believe
I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?Collection: Thinking
And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Fun
The clothes were a huge part of what made ‘Dynasty’ fun.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Stories