Adriana Lima Quotes

• "Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
• "Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself."
• "Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings."
• "For makeup, I love Shu Uemura. For my skin, I don't like to use much lotion or any soaps. I just let mother nature do her job."
• "For the moment I like my body. I don't think it's the best one, but I don't have anything I don't like about it-yet."
• "Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing."
• "I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English."
• "I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model."
• "I like to go to the movies or read."
• "I like to travel all over the world and learn new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that."
• "I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. At the beginning it was really fun."
• "I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous."
• "I think I want to be an actress. But first I need to try to get a better accent!"
• "I try to control what I eat, but the truth is I can't. I tried to give up meat last week, but I only lasted three days."
• "I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started."
• "I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down."
• "I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."
• "I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue."
• "I wouldn't say it's competitive. I think everyone has their time. Gisele is having her time, and Shirley had her time, and maybe I will have my time."
• "I'm a teenager, but I'm independent-I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone."
• "I'm from San Salvador. It is small compared to Sao Paolo. We are really slow there. People work half a day and then go to the beach. People have time."
• "I've never been to the gym. I do nothing."
• "If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"
• "If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families."
• "Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls."
• "My best moment was taking the plane when I came to New York. My family was really poor, and we would never have had the money to take a plane."
• "My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone."
• "Steven Meisel is definitely number one. I also love to work with Albert Watson because his work is a mix of photography and art."
• "When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it."
• "When I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego."
• "You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous."
• "Younger guys are just too jealous."
• "Modelling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls."