Paulina Porizkova

Words are my life.

— Paulina Porizkova

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

— Paulina Porizkova

“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off.…

— Paulina Porizkova

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

— Paulina Porizkova

“I’ve never really liked modeling... People are shocked when I say I love the money and hate the job, but it isn’t…

— Paulina Porizkova

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

— Paulina Porizkova

I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there…

— Paulina Porizkova

I'm a trash can. I eat whatever makes me happy.

— Paulina Porizkova

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

— Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of…

— Paulina Porizkova

After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I…

— Paulina Porizkova

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.

— Paulina Porizkova

People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.

— Paulina Porizkova

I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.

— Paulina Porizkova

When you have used your beauty to get around, it's like having extra cash in your back pocket. I was so used…

— Paulina Porizkova

Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there,…

— Paulina Porizkova

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.

— Paulina Porizkova

If you have really pretty skin, then you can pretty much stick on mascara and a lip cream and look great.

— Paulina Porizkova

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and…

— Paulina Porizkova

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

— Paulina Porizkova

“In America, a woman’s body seemed to belong to everybody but herself. Her sexuality belonged to her husband, her opinion of herself…

— Paulina Porizkova

I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would…

— Paulina Porizkova

From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there's nothing in…

— Paulina Porizkova

“As high school approached, the boys wanted to kiss us and touch us, and the girls became a group of benevolent queens…

— Paulina Porizkova

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I…

— Paulina Porizkova