Best 38 quotes of Janice Dickinson on MyQuotes

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

Without gay men, I am nothing.