Quotes by Janice Dickinson

• I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
• I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.
• I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
• I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.
• I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!
• I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.
• Without gay men, I am nothing.
• I was shaped by my mistakes.
• People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
• I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
• If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
• I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
• In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.
• Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.
• My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
• Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
• What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
• Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
• Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
• But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
• I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.
• I can wrap my legs around my neck.
• And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
• As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
• But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.
• Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.
• Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.
• Everyone steals from something or someone.
• I have a very vivid imagination.
• I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.
• Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
• I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.
• I borrow bits from everyone.
• I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.
• I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
• I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
• I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
• I find the light and work it, work it, work it.