Quote

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

Naomi Campbell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Naomi Campbell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 22
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Philanthropy
Singer
Naomi Elaine Campbell
Firsts
First
Versace
Mandela
Murdered
Call
Persons
Person

More quotes by Naomi Campbell

Image
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
Naomi Campbell
Image
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it. Yes, I am.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
Naomi Campbell
Image
My features are completely ethnic.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Life's too short to bullshit.
Naomi Campbell
Image
My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.
Naomi Campbell
Image
No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.
Naomi Campbell
Image
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way.
Naomi Campbell
Image
I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
Naomi Campbell
Image
Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell