Quotes from Janice Dickinson

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.

I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.