Quotes

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

"We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day." (Spoken in Vogue in 1990 to Jonathan Van Meter, talking about money and how she and a few other models were calling the shots and changing the game.)

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.

[In 2005, retracting her statement about not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.] I can't stand the way this follows me around. I said it a long time ago, and I hope today I am a different person. Now I get out of bed for a much better reason. I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Listen to your mother. She was right all a long.

[on her beauty philosophy about simplicity]I always thought less was more. But now when I see the layers and the layers and the layers of stuff people put on it's such devotion and looks so incredible. I don't think I look good with a lot of makeup.

[on high-end beauty products, drugstore beauty products, and beauty products, available only overseas]I buy them, I get them given to me. I love products. I've tried every line out there. I'd use things for a month or six weeks or whatever. Now I'm just down to this. It is incredible I just miss the excitement of the newness and the promise and the hope that it gives you and then nothing happens. I'm an addict, a junkie, for sure, but it's certainly simplified my life.

Because I have a child, I want to see grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. I like wrinkles. I don't like them when they're really deep.