Top 50 Janice Dickinson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Without gay men, I am nothing.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

3. “Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.”

— Janice Dickinson

4. “Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it’s at.”

— Janice Dickinson

5. “If you think I’m over-the-top, I am.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

7. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

8. “I have a very vivid imagination.”

— Janice Dickinson

9. “I’ve been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.”

— Janice Dickinson

10. “I can wrap my legs around my neck.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

12. “Hey, I fool the camera. I’m a liar, a magician.”

— Janice Dickinson

13. “I wish I’d gotten sober at a younger age.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

16. “Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.”

— Janice Dickinson

17. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

18. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

20. “What’s my motto when it comes to money? Don’t put so much emphasis on it!”

— Janice Dickinson

21. “I’m aiming to become the white Oprah.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

23. “I’m not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.”

— Janice Dickinson

24. “I borrow bits from everyone.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

26. “The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

30. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

31. “I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.”

— Janice Dickinson

32. “I find the light and work it, work it, work it.”

— Janice Dickinson

33. “I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

36. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

37. “Everyone steals from something or someone.”

— Janice Dickinson

38. “Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.”

— Janice Dickinson

39. “People identify with me – everyone does – African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I’m ethnic.”

— Janice Dickinson

40. “I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring; the roller coaster from hell.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

42. “Mothers don’t let your daughters grow up to be models unless you’re present.”

— Janice Dickinson

43. “I’m addicted to cosmetic surgery!”

— Janice Dickinson

44. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

45. “I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.”

— Janice Dickinson

46. “Money is like hormones. It’s just how you feel on any given day.”

— Janice Dickinson

47. “I’m a former bulimic myself and it’s a horrible, horrible addiction.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson

49. “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.”

— Janice Dickinson

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

— Janice Dickinson