Amber Valletta Quotes

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Modeling isn't boring.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama.

I definitely think that being a model makes it more difficult to be taken seriously. And I understand. I don't take it seriously sometimes.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

I feel like I've gotten whatever was meant to come to me and I feel really blessed.

If I hadn't become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was a little kid. I wanted to be a social worker.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

My agent, Didier Fernandez - who's been my agent since I was 18 - has definitely been a mentor and a protector and a trusted friend.