Bo Derek Quotes

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

With or without horse slaughter, horse rescues need our help and support. That can involve financial donations, volunteering, or even donating items like brushes and blankets. Horse rescues operate with little money, so every little thing you can do to help goes a long way.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks like, but I could wake up tomorrow and say, 'Okay, enough of this.'

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money.

In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law. It doesn't require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

He's just fun, so much fun. I'm very happy now.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if you get in trouble, you can find somebody in your age group who might recognize you.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.