Joan Collins Quotes

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.