“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.”

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

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

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.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I’ll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can’t necessarily quantify.

Whenever I get into a tough situation…I think of growing up, and I say, ‘This situation won’t be the worst one I’ve ever been in.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …

Growing up, I wasn’t an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.