Daily Inspiration Quote by Joan Collins

Collins is doing two things at once: paying a genuine debt and throwing a small, elegant elbow at the prestige economy that runs acting. By calling her respect "absolute" and "utmost", she leans into the kind of emphatic sincerity that sounds almost like overcorrection - which is exactly the point. Soap operas are one of the few corners of entertainment where the audience is massive and loyal, yet the industry’s applause is stingy. Collins names that imbalance without dressing it up.

The line that lands hardest is "harder than any actor I know". It’s not a Hallmark compliment; it’s a provocation. She’s reframing "difficulty" away from awards bait - the slow-burn indie performance, the transformation role - and toward stamina, speed, and technical craft: relentless shooting schedules, dense dialogue, emotional whiplash, minimal rehearsal, and the expectation that tears arrive on cue at 10 a.m. and again after lunch. Soap work isn’t just acting; it’s industrial-strength acting.

Appropriation is the acid in the last clause. Collins chooses a slightly old-fashioned word that implies not just praise, but earned public recognition - the kind institutions confer. The subtext is classed: soaps are coded as daytime, domestic, feminine, and therefore culturally "lesser", even when the labor is punishing. Coming from Collins, a star who has moved between glamour and grit, it reads as both insider testimony and a critique of who gets to be taken seriously on screen.