Quotes from Joan Collins

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.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

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.

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

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.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

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.

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.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

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.

The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

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.

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.

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.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

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.

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

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.

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.