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"