Quotes from Tyra Banks

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess.

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

I wear my age with pride.

It's kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it!

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

I do look at 'Modelland' as a franchise.

I don't know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I'll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.