90 result(s) for Joan Collins Quotes.
"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (a) you clearly decide what it is you're absolutely committed to achieving, (b) you're willing to take massive action, (c) you notice what's working or not, and (d) you continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."
"Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it."
"Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come."
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
"The key to having a happy and successful life is to discover what your calling is and then do it. Once you discover what you're meant to do, your passion will drive you to be the best you can be."
"Some people are afraid of doing too much. I'm not afraid of doing too much. I'm afraid of doing too little."
"Whatever is good for your soul - do that."
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"I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before."
"I've never been afraid to fail."
"If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing."
"I don't have dreams. I have goals."
"Age is just a number. You can look and feel how you want."
"It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs."
"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
"In life, you have to be outrageous."
"Our age is a charming age. Everybody says so, and I quite agree."
"Hollywood is a 24/7. Everything is based on extension."
"I was brought up never to discuss a lady's age or weight. The older I get, the less funny it is."
"My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when things were better."
"I don't want to hang around with the rich and famous, I do my own thing, I've always liked it that way."
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"I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies."
"Make sure you're doing something you really love and, if possible, getting paid well to do it."
"I think it's great when guys get to play the hero and get the girl at the end of the movie."
"I've never yet met anyone who didn't believe in something or have something to say."
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."
"I don't believe in self-denial. Why be skinny when you can eat like me?"
"When I was little, I hated business and thought if only my parents liked dentists, I'd be happier."
"The good thing about posh hotels is the food and the rooftop swimming pools and the gym."
"To survive you must try to fill the void and move on with life."
"There's something about really good food, the kind that makes you cook everything at home."
"Art has no rules. That's what makes it so wonderful."
"I'm not a fashion expert. I just like wearing clothes that look nice on me."
"Even the most beautiful legs in the world are useless if they don't know where to take you."
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"I have always stuck up for my rights and I've used my brain to argue and I've used my fists to fight, and I will use both again."
"The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll grow out of it."
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
"The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."
"I'm not a femme fatale. I'm a woman. Femme fatales are wily, intelligent, and somewhat predatory. I see men as equals."
"Know your worth. People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them."
"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not."
"I have always felt that too much time was given before the world to girls who shut their eyes to the truth."
"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."
"The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they are the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself."
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
"To sue Madonna for a handful of pop doesn't interest me."
"There's no such thing as natural beauty."
"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much."
"The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous."
"Make sure you actually believe in what you're selling. If you don't, how can you possibly convince someone else?"
"To heal a heart, you have to first make peace with your own."
"Some people are stuck in the same mindset day after day. They're the ones who miss out on that one great moment."
"There's no use sitting around and moaning about the lost opportunities of the past. The future's eminently more interesting."
"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day."
"Powerfulness and money are going to create a bad man. I think that people show their true colors by what they do with their lives."
"You have to have a sense of humour. I'd hate to think of my life as a soap opera."
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."
"Your own experiences make you richer in spirit."
"Having a sense of humor enables you to maintain perspective and pull back from a situation a little."
"People with a comfortable lifestyle will see me as a postcard from the edge."
"It is very important that when you sell something, you back it up and believe in it."
"Staying busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
"When you make your first million, spend it all before you make your second."
"Power is a great aphrodisiac."
"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
"I don't agree with actresses taking on roles and then saying, 'I can't go that far, I can't say that.' It's in the script, you were hired to do a role, so just do it."
"One should always dress like a marble column."
"My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing."
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt very lucky in many ways."
"The problem is, as you get older, you're not just fighting the wrinkles. You're fighting the default setting of the attitudes you've had since you were young."
"I was brought up in the old school: if you want it, work for it."
"I'm not bossy, I just know what you should be doing."
"When you're in the limelight, people have a certain control over you. They judge you by the way they think you should be."
"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
"Losing one's head can be a good thing if it's to do with washing one's hair."
"I didn't believe, really, that I would be a success. I thought too many things will go wrong in this job. I still think that but I would never say that, you see?"
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
"I'm not a diva. I'm a survivor. Which sounds much better and you can't really have a perfume called Survivor, can you?"
"I look at Sophia Loren and that generation of movie stars and I think they were really much more talented than anybody around today. They could do comedy and drama."
"We've definitely got more caring in the world than we had before! It's gone to the other extreme!"
"I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife."
"My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you just tolerate those little pain in your life and stay away from those who think you are a headache in their life."
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long, so regretfully, upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
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