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    Dame Joan Collins is sharing some royally good advice.

    Nearly two weeks after the Dynasty actress turned a spry 93 years old, she revealed she has “no secret” to feeling empowered in the latest decade of her career. Instead, she takes a different approach.

    “I just love life,” Collins told The Independent at Variety’s Women of Power event June 3. “I wake up every morning and breathe the air and try to get a good night’s sleep and drink lots of water and take care of myself.” 

    As for what the legendary actress does on the days she may not be feeling her most confident self? 

    “Watch TV—only old movies, though,” she added. “If you’re very lucky, you might manage to find an old Bette Davis film once in a while. But I like the films of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the ones with [Jack] Nicholson and Sarah Jessica Parker.”

    Beyond her optimism, Collins—whose newest movie My Duchess premiered at Cannes last month—recently confirmed she prioritizes her physical health, too. 

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    “Before we began filming I had to have a medical test for the insurance, to confirm I was OK to work,” she told The Telegraph in an interview published May 22. “They told me I was more healthy than any of the other cast!”

    Meanwhile, the Emmy nominee emphasized she’s lucky to have “very good genes.” 

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    “My father lived to be 87, and for somebody born in 1903 that’s pretty amazing,” she continued. “My mother took incredibly exceptional care of me and my sister. When we were growing up she gave us all supplements when nobody was taking supplements.”

    Plus, Collins gets herself into the gym.

    “I work out with my trainer a couple of times a week,” she explained. “Just basic Pilates-type exercise, rather than using one of those [reformer] Pilates machines, though.”

    What Collins isn’t doing, though, is exercising by walking.

    “It bores me,” she quipped. “I’ll walk around my apartment tweaking the flowers, but that’s about it. That sounds so ridiculous, and it will look ridiculous when you see it in print, but it’s true.”

    For more stars who have shared their thoughts on aging, keep reading… 

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    Heidi Klum”I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse; it’s just different. You change, and that’s okay. Life is about change,” she told Self.

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    Cameron Diaz”There’s no such thing as anti-aging. We’re all aging, period. Women take it as something personal that they are getting older. They think that they failed somehow by not staying 25. This is crazy to me because my belief is that it’s a privilege to get older—not everybody gets to get older,” she told Access Hollywood.

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    Kate Beckinsale”Historically when women have made strides of some type, culturally things rise up to oppress them. Right now I feel like we’ve made a lot of strides, but nobody’s allowed to age or look pregnant. I feel all of that stuff has gotten worse. It’s a brilliant way to keep people enslaved, by having them horrified by themselves. Well I refuse to feel shame about being human,” she told the Los Angeles Times.

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    Jennifer Lopez”When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.

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    Cindy Crawford”I’m actually happier with my body now… because the body I have now is the body I’ve worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn’t enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else’s,” she told Popsugar.

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    Drew Barrymore”Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart. If my breasts fall down to the floor and everything starts to sag, becoming hideous and gross, I won’t worry,” as she told Bustle. 

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    Madonna”F–k you. I’m 50. That’s what I’m going to say when I turn 50. Sorry,” as she told Popsugar. 

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    Diane Keaton”Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets,” as the told PopSugar. 

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    Helen Mirren”When you’re 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it’s fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it,” she told Bustle. 

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    Jennifer Garner”I do think about ageing. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much,” she told Marie Claire UK.

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    Celine Dion”There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty,” she told Ok! Magazine.

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    Penelope Cruz”Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead,” as she told MarieClaire.

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    Kate Winslet”I’m baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves,” she told Net-a-Porter Magazine. 

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    Oprah Winfrey”People who lie about their age are denying the truth and contributing to a sickness pervading our society—the sickness of wanting to be what you’re not…. I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life,” she wrote in O Magazine.

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    Diane Von Furstenberg”Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands…. In my older face, I see my life. Every wrinkle, every smile line, every age spot. There is a saying that with age, you look outside what you are inside. If you are someone who never smiles, your face gets saggy. If you’re a person who smiles a lot, you will have more smile lines. Your wrinkles reflect the roads you have taken; they form the map of your life. My face reflects the wind and sun and rain and dust from the trips I’ve taken. My face carries all my memories. Why should I erase them?” she told Vogue. 

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    Reese Witherspoon”But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You’re not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin,” she told Glamour.

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