Top 181 Quotes & Sayings by Heidi Klum - Page 2

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I always did feel beautiful when I was pregnant, but I do feel more me when I'm my normal size.

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

I am into comedy.

What are you going to do if you have all the money in the world and all the things that you wanted to achieve in your business and you have no one to share it with? You come home alone at the end of the day. And then what?

I'm not someone who plays hard to get.

I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.

I was the little sister that was annoying.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

Your kids are happy if you're happy. And if your love is happy, then everything works. I think a lot of people think once the children are there, it's all about the children. But you can't forget about your best friend, your lover, your husband.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

I certainly like working in Germany.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

For me, my No. 1 priority in life was to always have a family. If I had not been able to work anymore, then that would have been it. I would definitely choose family over career. It's really great that my field has allowed me to work and let me do things that a woman does naturally.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

Every couple goes through things.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

My boys wear red pants or crazy color tops. My kids are more fashion forward in their own dressing.

I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

My children love everything that sparkles. My boys just go with everything and make it their own, but my daughter is a little upset because she is 9 and I only go to 5, so sometimes she squeezes herself into a five, and she is trying to make that work because she wants to wear it, too.

I like to wear things for longer than one season.

When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.

I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

I'm bad at baking.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.

But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.

I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, 'Wow, I'm a really lucky person.'

I'm European. I don't like wearing tops. And I don't like tan lines.

Keep it simple. You don't want to overdo it with too much makeup or crazy, over-the-top hairstyles. Let your natural beauty show through.

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.

Just because people say no to you, doesn't mean you should say no to yourself.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.