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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.

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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Model
Novelist
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
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London
England
Joan Henrietta Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins
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Algebra
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Arithmetic
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Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
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If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
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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 think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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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.
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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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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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What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England it's the same in America and all over Europe.
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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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One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
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