Quotes from Bo Derek

I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks like, but I could wake up tomorrow and say, 'Okay, enough of this.'

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.