Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Although I'm a very happy person - I managed to make the best of everything. I mean, it's, like, when God gives you lemons, you know, make lemonade. So I did that, but I never really found the kind of peace and tranquility in a relationship that I have now with Percy.
And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.
And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
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.
And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
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.
Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
But there was a great deal of shock going on at the time because Warren and I were living together, and we were sort of - we talked about getting married, but we basically thought we were too young. We were in our early 20s. It was just stupid.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
He's also very bright. Very knowledgeable about everything. And we agree about everything. He's my best friend. He's my partner. We share everything.
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.
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 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 believe in dieting.
I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.
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 seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.
I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.
I have a lot of male friends.
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.
I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
I mean, I'm a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn't have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we'd gulp it down. It was just great.
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
I think dieting is bad for you.
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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.
I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
I'm doing - well, it's really because when Percy and I got married, which was in February of this year, we decided that the place that we wanted to spend most of our time was in New York. And he had a job that he was going to do, he's the company manager on the stage.
I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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'm one of the only one of the members in the cast of Dynasty who has children who haven't really left the nest, so they are a responsibility. I want to spend time with them, and I never have enough time to spend.
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Look, I'm an actress, Larry, I act. It doesn't matter - I don't consider myself a star like some people. I am a star, I can only do this.
Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.
No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
Well I've written four beauty books as well.
Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.
Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.
Joan was a great admirer of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
She had affairs with Dennis Hopper, Arthur Lowe, Sydney Chaplin, Ryan O'Neal, and George Englund (Cloris Leachman's husband).
Joan is allergic to shellfish.
Once engaged to Warren Beatty.
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