Author Profile
Tyra Banks
1973 • American • Model
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Showing 67 quotesI'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.— Tyra Banks
I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.— Tyra Banks
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'— Tyra Banks
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.— Tyra Banks
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.— Tyra Banks
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.'— Tyra Banks
I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.— Tyra Banks
Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.— Tyra Banks
The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.— Tyra Banks
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?— Tyra Banks
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'— Tyra Banks
Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.— Tyra Banks