Veteran actress Joan Collins would love to retire from show business but she can't afford to. The former Dynasty star insists she's not desperate enough to take any role that's offered to her, but she can't quit acting at 75.

She says, "I would (retire). Ninety nine per cent of actress would. (But) I don't have Barbra Streisand's money. I need to work." And the actress admits she lost two recent movie roles she desperately wanted - to Shirley MacLaine and Susan Sarandon.

She tells the new issue of BlackBook magazine, "The one that Shirley MacLaine had in Bewitched, I was trying to get that for several years. And another right one was the role Susan Sarandon played in Enchanted."

However is Collins bitter about missing out on the smash-hit family film? Of Sarandon, she quips, "She always plays those parts where there is a missionary worker, or a grandchild has been abducted."

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