Model Quotes

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Modelling killed me.

Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.

I really only have a few friends.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.