Natalia Vodianova Quotes

I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

I've always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I've had.

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I get to live a privileged existence.

You see it from my area, from any area, really, so many who want to be great and have the drive, but don't have the resources. I'm very blessed that I have a family that was financially stable enough to get me to tournaments and camps and to practices so I could wrestle year-round.

I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.

I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

I've been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don't get any.

The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.

I think we're all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way - I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.

I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.

When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.

We have a lot of great stars and so many different things, some of the other countries don't have that. So when they get somebody, they support them to the death. America, I kind of think we take it for granted sometimes.