Top 100 Quotes About Tyra Banks

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

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#3. I love daytime television.

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

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#5. I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

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

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

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#8. If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

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

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#10. I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

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#11. 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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#12. Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.

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#13. I'm obsessed by Instagram.

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#14. Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

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#15. I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye ... My body made me feel bad at everything.

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#16. I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn't there, I don't know if I would push as hard.

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#17. 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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#18. Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

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

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#21. I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

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#22. I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

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#23. I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

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#24. I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.

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#25. 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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#26. Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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#27. 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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#28. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

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#29. As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.

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#30. I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

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

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#32. Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.

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#33. I love Roald Dahl.

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#34. When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who ... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

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#35. 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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#36. I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

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#37. I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

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

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#39. Kate Upton is curvy and nervy.

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

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

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#42. I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

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#43. On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

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#44. I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

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#45. I have so many goals.

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

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#50. I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

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#54. I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.

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

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

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#58. 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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#59. With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

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#60. My natural hair texture is very kinky.

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

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

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#63. 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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#64. Don't make excuses - make improvements!

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#65. 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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#66. Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

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#67. I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

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

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

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

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#71. What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'

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#72. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

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#73. I'm not in a position to tell heavy people anything.

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#74. 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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#75. 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.

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#76. Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

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#77. One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.

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#78. Let's have fun at work.

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#79. 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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#80. You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'

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#81. Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.

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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

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#86. 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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#87. 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.

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#88. 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.

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#89. I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

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#90. As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

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

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#92. Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.

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#93. 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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#94. 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.

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#95. Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.

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#96. When I'm coming offstage after my show, I'm thinking about what's on my TiVo.

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

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#98. Love is an excuse to be stupid

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#99. 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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#100. 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.

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