"I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."
Carol Alt:
ON INSTINCT
"If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers."
Tyra Banks:
ON INNER STRENGTH
"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
ON TRAVEL
"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
ON BODY PARTS
"I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous."
ON TRUE LOVE
"Being single on Valentine's Day doesn't suck at all. At least I don't have to eat those nasty chocolates some guy gives me and pretend I like them."
Barbi Benton:
ON MORTALITY:
"I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don't know."
Christie Brinkley:
ON FATE
"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
ON EPIPHANY
"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
ON THE CASTE SYSTEM
"We're not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don't think of ourselves as royalty. We happen to be working people."
Naomi Campbell:
ON TRAGEDY
"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles -- but I had on thick tights underneath."
Cindy Crawford:
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."
ON DEATH
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
ON OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
"I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up having little scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those with sequins all over them."
Cameron Diaz:
ON BATTING .667
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
Linda Evangelista:
ON DEPRIVATION
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
ON ECONOMICS
"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."
ON VERSATILITY
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
Fabio:
ON COURTSHIP
"The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby."
Jerry Hall:
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."
Kathy Ireland (star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'):
ON ARRIVING
"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
Beverley Johnson:
ON POVERTY
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."
ON HEREDITY
"My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'"
Carole Mallory:
ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE
"Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage."
Kate Moss:
ON MOTIVATION
"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would."
Tatjana Patitz:
ON PARADOX
"Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone."
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."
Paulina Porizkova:
ON ZEN
"When I model I'm pretty blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
ON CAREER CHOICES
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
Gabrielle Reece:
ON BREAKTHROUGHS
"Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling."
Claudia Schiffer:
ON THE CONSERVATION OF MATTER
"I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face."
Brooke Shields:
ON ECONOMICS 101:
"Once, when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain that's like three Mercedes. Then I understood."
Tasha:
ON VENGEANCE
"Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair."
Cheryl Tiegs:
ON THE BASICS
"It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout."
Christy Turlington:
ON LOGIC
"I think, If my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me."
ON BODY LANGUAGE
"You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight."
ON INTRODUCTIONS
"I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie."
Veronica Webb:
ON THE GRIEF PROCESS
"When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss."