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If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
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Joan Henrietta Collins
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It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.
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The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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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.
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I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
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Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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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.
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