Kate Moss quotes and sayings

Model | Born: January 16, 1974

Kate Moss motivational quote : I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

They portray me as all these crazy things and I'm so not like that. I don't have entourages, I'm as normal as you can get in this lifestyle.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.

I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they're going to book you again. I like doing what I do.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

I always put on Chanel No 5 after I've had a bath or before I go to bed. If I'm going out, I'll layer other fragrances on top.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

It's often only other people who notice you have a signature style. I don't think I've got one, though other people tell me I do.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'.

I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really my image, they're always the photographer's vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.

If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, shorts, T-shirt, and sandals. If it was somewhere colder like New York, I'd go for jeans, jacket, and a pair of Louboutins.

You try and remember, but it never works.

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

Dressing is like modelling - you can constantly adapt.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.

You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

Kate Moss motivational quote : If I'm going to an event I make sure I plan ahead so that I don't have a fashion crisis.

I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.

I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.

Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.

My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.

Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

Kate Moss motivational quote : There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Just remember that, ultimately, dressing is always about attitude, feeling comfortable and confidence.

I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You've always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!

Kate Moss motivational quote : I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

I wouldn't want my daughtr to be a model. I don't think it's the best industry really for young girls. Unless you're really strong, it can really f**k you up.

A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm alright.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.

It's a sin to be tired.

For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.

I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.

The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.

At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'.

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm - and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven't got the shot, you'll have to go back the next day and start again!

No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

Kate Moss motivational quote : I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

I havent partied since... last Friday!

I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

I don't get why it would be interesting. I'm not that different. And also, now with Instagram and everything, everyone's so on their phones that even when I'm in a restaurant like this, where you wouldn't expect it, someone will come up and ask to get a picture with me and I'm like, 'No!'.

Kate Moss motivational quote : Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

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