Famous quotes by Joan Collins:

"It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano."

"The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them."

"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."

"I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife."

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."

"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."

"According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that."

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much"

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

"Life is not life unless you make mistakes"

"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."

"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 mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things."

"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."

"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."

"My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything."

"I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person."

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

"And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up."

"I don't believe in dieting."