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To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

I'm not a pop star.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

Being a star is not a job, and that's really important for me say.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

I have to maintain my stardom.

Never look directly into the camera, stare off. Nobody wants to see those eyes, they want to see the bod.

Well, when you're nitpicking every little detail... with digital, you're seeing what the finished product is, right there on set, and that's when you start to lose a lot of time. You lose time staring at that image trying to make it perfect.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.