Naomi Campbell Quotes
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?
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I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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My features are completely ethnic.
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Life's too short to bullshit.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.
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I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.
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I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
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I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.
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I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
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I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough.
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