I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

- Claudia Schiffer

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

- Claudia Schiffer

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

- Claudia Schiffer

I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

- Claudia Schiffer

I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.

- Claudia Schiffer

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.

- Claudia Schiffer

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

- Claudia Schiffer

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

- Claudia Schiffer

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

- Claudia Schiffer

I want to give people easy things to wear.

- Claudia Schiffer

I am calm most of the time.

- Claudia Schiffer

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

- Claudia Schiffer

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

- Claudia Schiffer

Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.

- Claudia Schiffer

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

- Claudia Schiffer

I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.

- Claudia Schiffer

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

- Claudia Schiffer

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

- Claudia Schiffer

This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

- Claudia Schiffer

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

- Claudia Schiffer