Top 122 Tyra Banks Quotes

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I'm a big fan of Lady Gaga.

I’m a big fan of Lady Gaga.
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It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, ‘If you don’t feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, ‘That is beautiful.’
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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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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became ‘hip.’
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The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
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The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.
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I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
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From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and ‘Top Model’, but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
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I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
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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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I think of dystopian as ‘Mad Max,’ as ‘Book of Eli,’ as the world is ending.
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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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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
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When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn’t happen in the acting world.
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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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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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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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I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.
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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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The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.
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I wish I was harder; I wish I didn’t care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more ‘oomph’ in me.
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I used to want to write commercials as a kid.
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I really want to leave something behind that means something when I’m no longer here.
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Let’s have fun at work.
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If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.
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Just because you don’t know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn’t mean that it’s not happening. Everybody doesn’t necessarily share everything. Just know that what you’re going through, other people are going through it, too.
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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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I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
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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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The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
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Every woman has… self doubt.
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I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have m

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I’d never get dressed.
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In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.
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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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I’m not in a position to tell heavy people anything.
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I am a businesswoman who goes to work every single day.
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I would love to do Rihanna’s makeup. I love her cupid’s bow!
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I don’t think I’ll always be on television.
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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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Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have the exact same eyes.
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I actually studied with The Groundlings.
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I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It’s just a mess.
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I used to have this joke: ‘Every hallway is a runway.’
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
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I’ve made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where’s the pain in that?
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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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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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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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I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.
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I would love for models to be protected by a guild.
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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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Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.
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I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.
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My natural hair texture is very kinky.
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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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When I was not connected with someone, I didn’t get asked out that often.
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Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn’t work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
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Flaws are awesome – so, ‘flawsome!’ I love making up a word.
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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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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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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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I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.
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I'm obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurant

I’m obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!
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I’ve wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.
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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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I don’t wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones – I paint them on!
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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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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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‘Vogue’ has the power to make and break – whether it’s fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.
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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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I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
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A smart model is a good model.
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I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!
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I have a poverty demon. I’ll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he’ll say, ‘What are you talking about?’
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When I was a model, they called me ‘Tyra;’ now it’s ‘Ms. Banks.’
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I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
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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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It’s so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
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It’s not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago – bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I’m also interested in having my own baby, too.
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