Naomi Campbell famous quotes

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Lovely #England #Pasta

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Children #Effort #Care

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Self Esteem #Loneliness #Issues

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
-- Naomi Campbell

#People #Challenges #Looks

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?
-- Naomi Campbell

#Lonely #Simple #Want

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Firsts #Versace #Call Me

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Living My Life #I Live My Life

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Work Out #Drink #Now And Then

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?
-- Naomi Campbell

#Fashion #Race #Theatre

[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Inspiration #World #Source

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.
-- Naomi Campbell

#People #Three #Attention

If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
-- Naomi Campbell

#Flower #Dresses #Underwear

I have no regrets. I've got my health.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Regret #No Regrets #Have No Regrets

When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Real #Saint #Firsts

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Stylist #Casting #Directors

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Car #Supportive #Important

Life's too short to bullshit.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Women #Bullshit #Too Short

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Numbers #Worry #Aging

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Girl #Magazines #Shows

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.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Jobs #Taken #Years

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
-- Naomi Campbell

#People #Trying #Want

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Cents

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Girl #Mentoring #Young

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
-- Naomi Campbell

#School #Rome #London

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Facts #Newspapers

My features are completely ethnic.
-- Naomi Campbell

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Chocolate #Littles #Little Things

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Icons #Moss

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.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Blame #Enough #Accepting

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Fashion #Jobs #New Orleans

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.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Loyal #Designer #Stills

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Girl #School #One Day

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?
-- Naomi Campbell

#Flower #Dresses #Underwear

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Jobs #Years #People

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Beautiful #Thinking #Born

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Thinking #Pedestal

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Black #Black Women #Angry

I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Workout

I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Trust #World #Goes On

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Skirts #Ankles #Tights

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Emotion #Temper

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.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Believe #Work Out #Healthy

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.
-- Naomi Campbell

#People #Television #Want

My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Cancer #Fighter #Mum

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Mind #Drink

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Want

I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Flying #Mind #Planes

No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Baby #Boys #Healthy

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Stupid #People #Black

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Letting Go #Fall #Cards

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #World

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.'
-- Naomi Campbell

#Way #Bossy

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Looks #Ability #Deals

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Mean #Feelings #Passionate

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
-- Naomi Campbell

#Thinking #Black #Firsts