Top 40 Naomi Campbell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don’t want help, you want attention.”

— Naomi Campbell

2. “Nothing’s ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that’s okay. I’m used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.”

— Naomi Campbell

3. “I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.”

— Naomi Campbell

4. “I live my life day by day, and that’s how I continue to live it.”

— Naomi Campbell

5. “I’ve never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.”

— Naomi Campbell

6. “I make a lot of money, but I don’t want to talk about that.”

— Naomi Campbell

7. “Check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.”

— Naomi Campbell

8. “I’m determined, and I’m passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don’t know something, I’m going to ask, and I’ve got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, “Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don’t look it.” Yes, I am.”

— Naomi Campbell

9. “Look, you have to make mistakes. That’s how you learn and that’s how the world works.”

— Naomi Campbell

10. “I look at modeling as something I’m doing for black people in general.”

— Naomi Campbell

11. “I don’t think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.”

— Naomi Campbell

12. “I think it’s always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you’ve learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn’t want it any other way.”

— Naomi Campbell

13. “In charity, every little bit works. You can’t change the world. You can’t do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.”

— Naomi Campbell

14. “What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.”

— Naomi Campbell

15. “I’ve been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I’d be over and out.”

— Naomi Campbell

16. “I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?”

— Naomi Campbell

17. “I loved watching so many of the great designers I’ve worked with do what they do. That’s why I’m still loyal to the designers that I’ve known since I was 16.”

— Naomi Campbell

18. “I don’t get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.”

— Naomi Campbell

19. “I’ve never known my real father, and I’ve never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life – and I’ve acquired more than one. I certainly couldn’t ask for better ones. I love them enormously – and they know that.”

— Naomi Campbell

20. “I do want someone, need someone. You’re right. And, when I’m with you, I feel like I’m a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it’s not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?”

— Naomi Campbell

21. “I’m not angry. And I don’t like the thing of the ‘angry black woman,’ either.”

— Naomi Campbell

22. “I don’t worry about a number. I’m fine with aging.”

— Naomi Campbell

23. “You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can’t we see it in fashion?”

— Naomi Campbell

24. “I’m happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn’t change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger – how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.”

— Naomi Campbell

25. “I love mentoring young girls. I’ve always been like that.”

— Naomi Campbell

26. “If I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?”

— Naomi Campbell

27. “I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That’s something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.”

— Naomi Campbell

28. “Feeling passionate about something doesn’t mean you have to be angry.”

— Naomi Campbell

29. “Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.”

— Naomi Campbell

30. “The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.”

— Naomi Campbell

31. “Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I’d love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I’m allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.”

— Naomi Campbell

32. “After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.”

— Naomi Campbell

33. “I was excited to explore and see the world. I’d been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere – even America.”

— Naomi Campbell

34. “The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I’m not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn’t see another way it could be done.”

— Naomi Campbell

35. “I have no regrets. I’ve got my health.”

— Naomi Campbell

36. “I don’t work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it’s a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.”

— Naomi Campbell

37. “I don’t mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.”

— Naomi Campbell

38. “I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world – because I know what goes on.”

— Naomi Campbell

39. “I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.”

— Naomi Campbell

40. “I’ve always been very shy of doing television. I’ve always said ‘no.’ Not to be disrespectful to anyone – I didn’t want to say ‘yes’ and then let people down.”

— Naomi Campbell

41. “I’m not set on a pedestal where I think I’m too high and mighty.”

— Naomi Campbell

42. “I’ve never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I’ve had great people in my life.”

— Naomi Campbell

43. “No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It’s healthy, it’s therapeutic and it’s the right way to live.”

— Naomi Campbell

44. “When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I’m doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.”

— Naomi Campbell

45. “I don’t like workouts that make you bulky.”

— Naomi Campbell