"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!"

"The quality of time I get to spend with my family is very important. That way, I feel I am experiencing all the different aspects of my life without guilt."

"My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens."

"I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it."

"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."

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

"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."

"When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans."

"I'm a twin, I'm a Cancer; I'm always taking care of other people. I've always been the fixer in the family, the responsible one."

"A woman can look powerful in a party, but when she arrives at home, all she wants is to feel comfortable."

"I love kids. It's amazing that I have the opportunity to hang out with my stepson all the time."

"I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life."

"I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people."

"It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white."

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

"My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children."

"When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you."

"I'm a very hyper person."

"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."

"I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick - not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't."

"I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there."

"If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits."

"To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this."

"Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them."

"This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do."

"Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do."

"I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself."

"I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day."

"I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?"

"There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months."

"Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are."

"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 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 that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best."

"I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic."

"There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this."

"I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face."

"If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do."

"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great."

"I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities."

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

"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'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time."

"If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature."

"I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place."

"The most beautiful thing about Brazil that I always find that is so unlike any other place I've been in the world is the diversity of its people."

"Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space."

"I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues."

"People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know."