A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

I had always broken the rules.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I discovered myself!

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

We need a new religion.

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

Fashion is what youre offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

I think there's a misconception, often times, I think society portrays truckers as people who can't get a better job or maybe uneducated, and I think that's a really unfair assessment.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Anger is one letter short of danger.

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.