Top 35 Adriana Lima Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.”

— Adriana Lima

2. “I won’t cry for you, my mascara’s too expensive.”

— Adriana Lima

3. “If you’re comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful – and look beautiful to others, too.”

— Adriana Lima

4. “Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself.”

— Adriana Lima

5. “Fashion is about good energy. It’s about feelings. That’s what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.”

— Adriana Lima

6. “I don’t like fights. I don’t like aggressive people.”

— Adriana Lima

7. “Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.”

— Adriana Lima

8. “If I am not moving I get bored very easily.”

— Adriana Lima

9. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

10. “I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.”

— Adriana Lima

11. “I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.”

— Adriana Lima

12. “I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.”

— Adriana Lima

13. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

14. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

15. “It’s wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don’t care about style or money.”

— Adriana Lima

16. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

17. “In Brazil, there isn’t just one beauty ideal. There’s a lot of emphasis on a woman’s natural beauty – but of course, Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup.”

— Adriana Lima

18. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

19. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

20. “When I get older, I don’t think I’ll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.”

— Adriana Lima

21. “If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!”

— Adriana Lima

22. “A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?”

— Adriana Lima

23. “Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.”

— Adriana Lima

24. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

25. “I’ve never been to the gym. I do nothing.”

— Adriana Lima

26. “Younger guys are just too jealous.”

— Adriana Lima

27. “I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.”

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28. “I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.”

— Adriana Lima

29. “You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.”

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30. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

31. “I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!”

— Adriana Lima

32. “I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn’t necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.”

— Adriana Lima

33. “I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don’t get bored.”

— Adriana Lima

34. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

35. “I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.”

— Adriana Lima

36. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

37. “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.”

— Adriana Lima

38. “I like to go to the movies or read.”

— Adriana Lima