Tyra Banks

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

A smart model is a good model.

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

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

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

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

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have the exact same eyes.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

Michelle Obama, you're one hot mama.

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'm a big fan of Lady Gaga.

I'm obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

Not wearing make-up? I can do it, and don't think twice.

I actually studied with The Groundlings.

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

I don't think I'll always be on television.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

There's no excuse for rudeness.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

I have a lot of bad days.

Kate Upton is curvy and nervy.

I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

I know I'm an overachiever, and I'm not apologetic about it.

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

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

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

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

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?