Naomi Campbell Quotes

"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"

"I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out."

"I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent."

"Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort."

"I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard."

"Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person."

"It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable."

"I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest."

"Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood."

"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath."

"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela."

"I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind."

"I have no regrets. I've got my health."

"I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it."

"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that."

"I work very hard and I'm worth every cent."

"I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth."

"I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty."

"I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out."

"In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer."

"My features are completely ethnic."

"Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing."

"Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness."

"I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me."

"I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta."

"I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school."

"Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there."

"I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16."

"I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging."

"Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works."