I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

All you can do is play how you know how to play.

There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.