Janice Dickinson Quotations

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

I borrow bits from everyone.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

If that's her attitude, she shouldn't be in modeling. She should be working at Avis

The secrets almost killed me. I kept the secret of incest.

I'm not addicted to plastic surgery, but I need it. I'm 50-years-old and I'm on television... I can't have that chicken neck-thing going.