Tyra Banks Quotes

I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

I know some women are intimidated by makeup.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.

When I'm coming offstage after my show, I'm thinking about what's on my TiVo.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

My natural hair texture is very kinky.

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

Let's have fun at work.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

I tend to hang out with my friends in Los Angeles from high school. We know each other from back in the day. They still see me as just dumb Tyra. We have a strong bond.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

A size 16 can be the best shape for you, and you can be healthy.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'

I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

I love being able to go to a store, let's say ... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'

I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like ' ... retired.'

I'm obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

Kate Upton is curvy and nervy.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.

You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'

When I am full, I stop eating.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

I have a lot of bad days.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

I'm not in a position to tell heavy people anything.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

I love Boston; it's like Paris.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.

I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.

We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

Love is an excuse to be stupid

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.

I used to want to write commercials as a kid.

There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.

Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.