Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
— 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.
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.
Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.
I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.
Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.
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.
The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.
As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
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.
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 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.
Everyone steals from something or someone.
I find the light and work it, work it, work it.
I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.
I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.
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.
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.
I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.
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.
I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.
I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.
What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!
But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.
I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.
I have a very vivid imagination.
I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.
I can wrap my legs around my neck.
I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.
I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.
I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.
I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.
Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.
I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.
I was shaped by my mistakes.
I borrow bits from everyone.
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 grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
