Quotes from Heidi Klum

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

I like to wear things for longer than one season.

I love painting.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

I'm bad at baking.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

Your kids are happy if you're happy. And if your love is happy, then everything works. I think a lot of people think once the children are there, it's all about the children. But you can't forget about your best friend, your lover, your husband.

No Botox. I don't think I will go there. I don't want to say never, because who knows? Maybe in 10 years I will.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.