SUPERMODEL WIT AND WISDOM

ON GEOPOLITICS
"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
-- Jerry Hall

ON POVERTY
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."
-- Beverly Johnson

ON FATE
"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
-- Christie Brinkley

ON COURAGE
"They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind."
-- Cindy Crawford

ON PSYCHOLOGY
"I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
-- Tatjana Patitz

ON ARRIVING
"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
-- Kathy Ireland, star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'

ON INNER STRENGTH
"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
-- Tyra Banks

ON TRAVEL
"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
-- Tyra Banks

ON BREAKTHROUGHS
"Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling."
-- Gabrielle Reece

ON ECONOMICS
"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."
-- Linda Evangelista

ON ZEN
"When I model I'm pretty blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
-- Paulina Porizkova

ON MOTIVATION
"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would."
-- Kate Moss

ON VERSATILITY
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
-- Linda Evangelista
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
-- Cameron Diaz

BONUS QUOTE FOR THE DAY
"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of figure skating"

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