My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can’t believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
BO DEREKThere’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
More Bo Derek Quotes
-
-
When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something – usually an expression, something unique to their face.
BO DEREK -
I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
BO DEREK -
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.
BO DEREK -
Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.
BO DEREK -
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
BO DEREK -
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
BO DEREK -
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
BO DEREK -
I hate to run. I never, ever run.
BO DEREK -
There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
BO DEREK -
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK -
It’s so easy to conform and to follow. It’s very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
BO DEREK -
I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.
BO DEREK -
I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it’s dangerous now.
BO DEREK -
We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
BO DEREK -
It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.
BO DEREK