Canadian Quotes

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.

I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.