A biography for Joan Collinshasn’t been written yet.
“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've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.”
“Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.”
“My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.”
“I have a lot of male friends.”
“I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.”
“I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.”
“I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.”
“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.”
“I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.”
“If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.”
“I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.”
“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 don't believe in dieting.”
“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 have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.”
“Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.”
“The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.”
“I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.”
“I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.”