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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
Joan Collins
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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
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Joan Henrietta Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins
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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.
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I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
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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.
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I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.
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I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.
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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.
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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.
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I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.
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The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.
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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
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
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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.
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