My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him… My mother is British, but she’s of French extraction. Joan Collins Read Quote
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. Joan Collins Read Quote
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. Joan Collins Read Quote
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. Joan Collins Read Quote
I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient ‘little woman’ type. Joan Collins Read Quote
I do think it’s very important, if you’re going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis. Joan Collins Read Quote
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. Joan Collins Read Quote
There’s something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you’re cut off. If you don’t want to speak to anybody, basically they don’t know where you are. And it’s so beautiful. Joan Collins Read Quote
