Happiness Quote by Joan Collins

There is something deliciously strategic about an imported icon declaring herself a "native" New Yorker. Joan Collins isn’t just reporting contentment; she’s performing belonging. The word "native" is the tell: it’s less a demographic fact than a badge of cultural legitimacy, an attempt to cross an invisible border that New York guards with almost comic intensity. You can live there for decades and still be treated like you’re visiting; to claim nativeness is to announce you’ve passed whatever unspoken test the city administers.

Coming from Collins, an actress whose public life has long been wrapped in glamour, aristocratic Britishness, and a kind of polished outsiderness, the line reads like a small act of reinvention. It’s assimilation with a wink. New York is one of the few places where a persona can be both constructed and believed, where self-mythology is practically a civic duty. Her "I really feel now" acknowledges the transformation as psychological, not bureaucratic: identity in the city is something you earn through endurance, routine, and the daily friction of living among other ambitious, self-authored people.

"And I'm very happy here" lands as the emotional payoff, but it also signals relief. For a public figure, choosing New York over the safer comforts of exile or retreat is a statement: she wants the noise, the anonymity, the pace. The subtext is simple and savvy: don’t see me as a visitor passing through; see me as someone who has arrived.