“The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.”
― Janice Dickinson
“And I will never, ever respond to anybody – man, woman, vegetable, or mineral – who tells me to keep my mouth shut.”
― Janice Dickinson
“The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.”
― Janice Dickinson
“What’s my motto when it comes to money? Don’t put so much emphasis on it!”
― Janice Dickinson
“I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.”
― Janice Dickinson
“As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’ve been fooling the public for years and I’m really good at it.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’ve sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn’t a thing I haven’t sold, including Tampax. You name it.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.”
― Janice Dickinson
“If you think I’m over-the-top, I am.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Without gay men, I am nothing.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it’s shifted.”
― Janice Dickinson
“In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Mothers don’t let your daughters grow up to be models unless you’re present.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it’s at.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’ve been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I wish I’d gotten sober at a younger age.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I can wrap my legs around my neck.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m able to move like no one else you’ve ever seen in front of a camera.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I find the light and work it, work it, work it.”
― Janice Dickinson
“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.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I have a very vivid imagination.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Everyone steals from something or someone.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I borrow bits from everyone.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I was shaped by my mistakes.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’ve been on the cover of every magazine in the world.”
― Janice Dickinson
“But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.”
― Janice Dickinson
“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.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m addicted to cosmetic surgery!”
― Janice Dickinson
“My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.”
― Janice Dickinson
“People identify with me – everyone does – African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I’m ethnic.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Money is like hormones. It’s just how you feel on any given day.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m aiming to become the white Oprah.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Hey, I fool the camera. I’m a liar, a magician.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m a former bulimic myself and it’s a horrible, horrible addiction.”
― Janice Dickinson
“The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I’ll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I’m all for it.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I was Versace’s muse, I was Valentino’s muse, I was Alaia’s muse, Lancetti’s muse, Calvin Klein’s, Halston’s. I could go on and on.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I don’t know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m the female Simon Cowell. He said I’m the scariest woman he’s ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I’m probably the biggest reality television star living.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.”
― Janice Dickinson
“I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments – just as I have been shaped by my successes.”
― Janice Dickinson
“Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.”
― Janice Dickinson
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