Quotes by Adriana Lima

• Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
• Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
• I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model.
• My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
• Younger guys are just too jealous.
• When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
• If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
• If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!
• I've never been to the gym. I do nothing.
• I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
• I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.
• I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
• I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.
• I like to go to the movies or read.
• I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.
• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
• You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
• Embrace the chaos of life, for it is within the uncertainty that true growth and beauty can be found.
• Don't rush the process; good things take time to blossom.