Quotes by Naomi Campbell

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

— Naomi Campbell

Life

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

— Naomi Campbell

Success

My features are completely ethnic.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

— Naomi Campbell

Success

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

— Naomi Campbell

Truth

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

— Naomi Campbell

Life

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

— Naomi Campbell

Success

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

— Naomi Campbell

Success

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

— Naomi Campbell

Love

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

— Naomi Campbell

Wisdom