“I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.”

Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

I never went after character payments. I’m pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

I don’t like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

There’s not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it’s everything.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

Business is hard, really hard, but it’s worth it.

My daughter has fulfilled all of my dreams, because she has a BA and MBA in business. She’s both a financial analyst and a plus-size model. She has the best of both worlds because, in modeling, you have to have something to fall back on.

Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, ‘What if she’s ugly? You’re ugly.’

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don’t know whether I’d ever have become a model if he hadn’t let me do that.

Sometimes when you’re acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.