Gisele Bundchen

“When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.”

“If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.”

“Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.”

“Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.”

“I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.”

“I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.”

“Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.”

“I'm very nurturing. I come from a large family, and my parents were loving. But the most important thing for me as a mum is to keep my word. When I say no, I mean no.”

“I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.”

“Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.”

“When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.”

“I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.”

“I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!”

“This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.”

“When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.”

“When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.”

“I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.”

“You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.”

“As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world.”

“I had to make some adjustments from what my life was like before I was a mom. My kids are so fun and loving, but they are also demanding!”