Sara Sampaio Quotes

It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Tyra, 'cause you've given me, like, all the cool tips. Like how to smile with your eyes.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

I tend to curve my back or pop my hip on the side. I always like to turn a little bit profile, and if you put one of your knees in, it also gives the illusion of more curves. There are a lot of tricks - you learn on the job sometimes.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Drugs make you lie. But honestly, in the beginning, I liked the fact that at first the drugs made me thinner. I did have a secret joy about that. But that lasted for about a month. And then all of a sudden I was too skinny. I lost my curves.

When I'm in heels - and I live in heels - I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.

I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Body language is more powerful than words.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.