Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Gisele Bundchen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.
If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only want to do it if the shadow is really dark. Otherwise, light pencil makes your eyes look too far apart, like a fish.
When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you. — © Gisele Bundchen
When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you.
Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.
Gossip is poison.
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.
It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.
I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.
Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
The most beautiful thing about Brazil that I always find that is so unlike any other place I've been in the world is the diversity of its people.
I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. — © Gisele Bundchen
I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.
I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.
You know that 40 percent of the food in the United States gets thrown away because it doesn't look a certain way. It's crazy: just because the apple is not the right size or the carrot is not straight enough, it just doesn't get accepted.
If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature.
My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.
I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.
Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.
I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!
I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.
There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.
I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.
When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans.
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.
Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.
I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.
I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it.
My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already.
I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
I've always been in serious relationships. I meet someone and date him for a long period. I don't sit there thinking, like, 'I wonder if I can seduce that guy.' I have other things in my mind.
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. — © Gisele Bundchen
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.
Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.
There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.
I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.
I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.
I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.
When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people. — © Gisele Bundchen
I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.
Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.
I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.
I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.
Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.
I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
I always knew that, even if I was not the most beautiful girl, I'd be the most energetic and hard-working. If you want to know the truth, that's the reason for my success.
I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future.
I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.
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