Naomi Campbell Quotes

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.'

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.

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.

You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

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

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

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

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

I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough.

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 mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.

I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

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 angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

My features are completely ethnic.

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British Elle. It was April 14, 1986.

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

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

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

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

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

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.

When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.

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

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

[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.

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

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?

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

Life's too short to bullshit.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

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.

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

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

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

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.