Daily Inspiration Quote by Joan Collins

Collins is doing what the best stars do: turning national stereotype into a shield and a weapon at once. By chalking her attitude up to "being British", she offers a charming, socially acceptable origin story for something sharper: a refusal to perform solemnity on demand. It is self-deprecation with a spine. The first sentence disarms; the second one lands.

The subtext is about class and performance as much as nationality. "We don't take ourselves as seriously" is code for a particular kind of polish: keep your ego understated, keep your feelings managed, never let ambition look desperate. In Britain, especially in the entertainment world Collins came up through, seriousness can read as vulgar if it comes with self-importance. Her dig at "some other countries" is pointedly nonspecific, which makes it useful: a neat little umbrella under which you can tuck Hollywood grandiosity, political moralizing, influencer self-mythologizing, even the therapy-speak habit of treating every preference like a profound identity.

Calling the overly serious "tedious" is the real flex. She doesn't argue with them; she bores them into irrelevance. It's a celebrity's version of social control: mock the pose, not the person, and you keep the moral high ground while still drawing blood.

Context matters, too. Collins built a career on glamour that always carried a wink, especially in Dynasty-era excess where camp functioned as critique. Her line defends that sensibility: if you're in on the joke, you can't be owned by it.