Top 90 Kate Moss Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

— Kate Moss

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2. “You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”

— Kate Moss

3. “I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.”

— Kate Moss

4. “I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.”

— Kate Moss

5. “Just remember that, ultimately, dressing is always about attitude, feeling comfortable and confidence.”

— Kate Moss

6. “I always have this fear that one day you are going to discover that I’m not as great as you once thought I was. Nothing feels as good as skinny feels.”

— Kate Moss

7. “It’s neurotic fat women who hate me – they’re stupid.”

— Kate Moss

8. “I’m not a show-off by nature.”

— Kate Moss

9. “I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.”

— Kate Moss

10. “It’s important to accessorise. I always turn to the scarves, hats and sunglasses. But wearing too many accessories at once can look very bad.”

— Kate Moss

11. “I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn’t making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.”

— Kate Moss

12. “For makeup, a bit of blusher – what you call bronzer – a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.”

— Kate Moss

13. “I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.”

— Kate Moss

14. “Jam! I love my jam. I’ve just had a batch of it come through, I’ve been making it.”

— Kate Moss

15. “You try and remember, but it never works.”

— Kate Moss

16. “The first time I went to Johnny Depp’s house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn’t really know what that entailed.”

— Kate Moss

17. “It doesn’t matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it’s how you wear them and your attitude that counts.”

— Kate Moss

18. “It sounds really corny but I think that if you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.”

— Kate Moss

19. “Everyone’s projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I’m being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.”

— Kate Moss

20. “It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.”

— Kate Moss

21. “I’ve been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.”

— Kate Moss

22. “I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.”

— Kate Moss

23. “If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.”

— Kate Moss

24. “You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.”

— Kate Moss

25. “Now I’m being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.”

— Kate Moss

26. “It’s a sin to be tired.”

— Kate Moss

27. “What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.”

— Kate Moss

28. “I hate dentists. That’s why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn’t go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth.”

— Kate Moss

29. “Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm – and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven’t got the shot, you’ll have to go back the next day and start again!”

— Kate Moss

30. “A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.”

— Kate Moss

31. “They portray me as all these crazy things and I’m so not like that. I don’t have entourages, I’m as normal as you can get in this lifestyle.”

— Kate Moss

32. “That picture of me running down the beach – I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”

— Kate Moss

33. “People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”

— Kate Moss

34. “I don’t do any Class A -especially not cocaine – after seeing what it does to people.”

— Kate Moss

35. “People don’t hear me talk. They don’t expect me to.”

— Kate Moss

36. “I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don’t want to be this skinny.”

— Kate Moss

37. “I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can’t be dirty.”

— Kate Moss

38. “I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn’t a model. I’d go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that’s the plan.”

— Kate Moss

39. “It is quite amazing what I didn’t feel after a while. I didn’t really want to feel things.”

— Kate Moss

40. “I have met almost everyone I’ve wanted to meet.”

— Kate Moss

41. “All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there’s always a party to go to.”

— Kate Moss

42. “You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.”

— Kate Moss

43. “I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that’s the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.”

— Kate Moss

44. “Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.”

— Kate Moss

45. “I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they’re going to book you again. I like doing what I do.”

— Kate Moss

46. “I don’t want to be this skinny.”

— Kate Moss

47. “Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.”

— Kate Moss

48. “I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.”

— Kate Moss

49. “Now I can walk into a room full of people I don’t know and do my job. That’s quite a massive thing to learn, I think.”

— Kate Moss

50. “It’s all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.”

— Kate Moss