Naomi Campbell Quotes

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

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

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

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

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

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

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

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

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

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

Life's too short to bullshit.

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

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 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?

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

My features are completely ethnic.

If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

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

Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.

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

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 #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.

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.

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.

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.

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 don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

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 was excited to explore and see the world. I'd been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere - even America.

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

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

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

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.

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