Top 100 Tyra Banks Quotes

#1. People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

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

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#3. A size 16 can be the best shape for you, and you can be healthy.

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#4. Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me ... <3

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#5. I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

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#6. Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

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#10. Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

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#11. With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like ' ... retired.'

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#12. When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.

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#13. I love Roald Dahl.

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#14. I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

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

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#16. I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

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#17. Don't save bold lashes and red lips for nighttime - do it in the day!

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#18. I have so many goals.

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

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#20. I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I have a long list of different smiles that you can do, and every model should be equipped. Everybody can't handle the long list ... That's for, you know, advanced.

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#23. I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

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#24. Don't chase the money ... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

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#25. Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

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#26. 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.

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#27. My natural hair texture is very kinky.

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#28. Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

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#29. I love being able to go to a store, let's say ... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.

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#30. Don't make excuses - make improvements!

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

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#32. I love Boston; it's like Paris.

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#33. I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill ... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

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#34. Let's have fun at work.

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#35. I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

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#36. I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.

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#37. We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

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#38. I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

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#39. When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'

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#40. If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.

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

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#42. I do look at 'Modelland' as a franchise.

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#43. My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.

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

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#45. I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

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

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#47. I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

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#48. I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

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#49. I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

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#50. Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

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#51. There's no excuse for rudeness.

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#52. I actually studied with The Groundlings.

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#53. 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!

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

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#55. Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.

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#56. Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.

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#57. [You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

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

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#59. I liked college guys but they could tell I was just a skinny girl.

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#60. I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

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#61. I'm a lover of fashion websites.

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#62. I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

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#63. The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.

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#64. Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.

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#65. 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.

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#66. I used to love writing in my journal.

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#67. My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

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#68. Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.

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#69. I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.

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#70. I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

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#71. One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

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#72. I would love to do Rihanna's makeup. I love her cupid's bow!

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#73. When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

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#74. Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

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#75. I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.

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#76. I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

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#77. The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.

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#78. On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

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#79. There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

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#80. What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.

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

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#82. I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

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#83. Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

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#84. I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

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#85. I have a lot of bad days.

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

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#87. I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'

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#88. My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

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

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#90. I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.

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#91. It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

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#92. I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'

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#93. Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.

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#94. I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal ... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.

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#95. 'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

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#96. Never dull your shine for somebody else.

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#97. 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.

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#98. I tend to hang out with my friends in Los Angeles from high school. We know each other from back in the day. They still see me as just dumb Tyra. We have a strong bond.

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#99. The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

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

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