Janice Dickinson quotes:

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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

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've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

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 grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

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."

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

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.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.

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 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.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

I borrow bits from everyone.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.