Tyra Banks Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Tyra Banks Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Tyra Banks Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I’m not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them.
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I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I’d never get dressed.
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When I was a model, they called me ‘Tyra;’ now it’s ‘Ms. Banks.’
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Flaws are awesome – so, ‘flawsome!’ I love making up a word.
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Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
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Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.
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What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it’s day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it’s, ‘Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?’
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I would love to do Rihanna‘s makeup. I love her cupid’s bow!
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‘America’s Next Top Model’ is not a bunch of Barbies – it’s a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
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Don’t contour with blush – that’s so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it’s not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that’s one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.
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I used to have this joke: ‘Every hallway is a runway.’
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I’ve wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.
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Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.
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I think I’m too young to be a mogul. I think I’m too young for that.
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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
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I know I’m an overachiever, and I’m not apologetic about it.
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I actually studied with The Groundlings.
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I’m obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!
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Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
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I’m obsessed by Instagram.
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I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from ‘Sesame Street.’
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I don’t have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.
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Sometimes you gotta leave when you’re on top.
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I just think, as a model, it’s taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.
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I love being able to go to a store, let’s say… a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy’s, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.
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If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.
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I’m competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
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I’m not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I’m already doing.
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I’m always looking at how I can be atypical.
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I don’t believe in diets.
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I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
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I’m all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.
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I’m not in a position to tell heavy people anything.
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?
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Tyra the businesswoman is very close to – and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it – but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all ‘Wooo!’ and ‘Oh, child!’ and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.
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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
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The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
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I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.
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My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
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I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
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When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, ‘OK, we’re going to discuss what they’re saying over pizza, and we’re going to plan the future of your career which doesn’t involve you having to be skinny.’
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There have been top supermodels in the past that weren’t as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.
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What I don’t like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.
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Dab – don’t rubcream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you’ve put on too much.
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We are often told we can’t have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress – you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.
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I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don’t mind telling it all.
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I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
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Sephora is fantastic. I go in there. I get lost. There are so many great things in there.
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Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.
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Don’t save bold lashes and red lips for nighttime – do it in the day!
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
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I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.
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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
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I’m not led by money, because if that’s the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
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I always feel great when I don’t have clothes on.
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Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have the exact same eyes.
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With the whole supermodel thing, even when you’re not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I’m like ‘… retired.’
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, ‘What’s the yearly budget of your talk show? What’s the per-episode budget?’ And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, ‘I don’t know.’ I call myself a businesswoman, and I don’t know that?
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I didn’t have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn’t even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn’t understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
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I do look at ‘Modelland’ as a franchise.
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I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don’t overeat.
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I always had a passion to write as a young girl.
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I have so many goals.
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I haven‘t seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven’t seen anything. I don’t really care.
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When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn’t happen in the acting world.
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‘Modelland’ has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I’m excited that you’ll be able to read about this magical world that’s been living in my dreams for so many years.
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I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.
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When I was not connected with someone, I didn’t get asked out that often.
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I used to say in interviews that I don’t necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.
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Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.
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I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.
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I don’t think cellulite is great – that’s not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I’m retouching it out.
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I try to keep my private life kind of private.
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I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.
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My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
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I wear my age with pride.
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Believe it or not, I don’t wake up looking like a supermodel.
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You’ve got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that’s got it goin’ on.
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I know the pain of somebody who’s too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.
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Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, ‘Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!’ And I would say ‘Child, this is a weave!’
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I’m very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.
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Let’s have fun at work.
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Sometimes I’ll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.
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I have a lot of bad days.
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My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
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I don’t wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones – I paint them on!
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I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
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The president of Victoria’s Secret promised me a lifetime supply of Victoria’s Secret products, even after I decided to leave the company. But once I left, he only let me have it for a year. So I have a bone to pick.
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Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!
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I don’t think I’ll always be on television.
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Just because you don’t know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn’t mean that it’s not happening. Everybody doesn’t necessarily share everything. Just know that what you’re going through, other people are going through it, too.
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I’m obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.
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I don’t go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
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