Melrose quotes from America's Next Top Model

[to Jaeda, Amanda, Michelle, CariDee, Christian, Megg, Megan, Eugena, Anchal, Brooke and A.J. about Monique] This girl is so uncooperative!

[in confessional about surviving the bottom two over Christian] I've been thinking a lot about Christian.

[in confessional about Monique] Monique has lashed out at every single person here in a different way!

[in confessional about Monique] When you're with someone who has no compassion or respect like Monique, it's hard.

[in confessional about Monique] I just feel that all that negative energy is feeding back on her. Maybe she made herself sick!

[singing whilst CariDee is playing guitar about Brooke being eliminated] We love you Brooke and we're going to miss you like hell! You brought to this the feeling of I can't fail!

All I hear is kkhhuhhh! She steps on the dress and it rips! It's not like a little rip it's a hole! It's a hole. If you hold it up you can put your head through it. I was just so freaked out about the dress being ripped I just wanted to run! She ripped the dress! Cari. She ripped the dress!

I’m pissed. I’ve put my heart and soul into this, and it wasn’t enough. And I got called a bitch the whole way through it and it sucks. And I feel really misunderstood and I’m sad.

[to Tyra, Mr. Jay and J. Alexander] Hello! How are you?

Tyra Banks

[to Melrose] Your name is Melissa Rose but you go by what?

[to Tyra, Mr. Jay and J. Alexander] Melrose.

Tyra

[to Melrose] Why is that?

[to Tyra, Mr. Jay and J. Alexander] I don't need the "issa".

Tyra

[to Melrose] No "issa"?

[to Tyra, Mr. Jay and J. Alexander] It's too much. People don't remember Melissa Rose! They remember Melrose. [in confessional] I need to show America.

Jay Manuel

[to Melrose] What's the issue?

[to Jay Manuel] Oh, honey, I've been ready for like six hours but then I got my massage with my make up on and...

Jay Manuel

[to Melrose] Really? The attitude! Don't slow up the shoot!

Jay Manuel

[to Melrose] Is that horrified or is that bad acting?

[to Jay Manuel] That’s bad acting.

Jay Manuel

[to Melrose] Yeah. Thank you. Can you give me horrified?

[to Jay Manuel] Ugh!

Jay Manuel

[to Melrose] That’s bad acting.

Tyra

[to Brooke, Christian and Melrose who are all left standing anxiously in the final three to await the last girl safe from the bottom two before receiving the verdict for the very first official elimination of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7] The next name that I am going to call is… [flips over Brooke’s photo] Brooke.

[relieved to be safe and walks up to Tyra to accept her photo] Hooh! I’m going to work really hard this week.

Tyra

[to Brooke] Congratulations. You’re still in the running towards becoming America’s Next Top Model.

[to Tyra] Thank you. [collects her photo and joins the other ten girls who are already safe]

Tyra

[to Christian and Melrose in the bottom two] Will Melrose and Christian please step forward. [Christian and Melrose step forward and when Christian goes one step too far she stands in line next to Melrose] I only have one photo in my hands and I will only call one name. The girl that I do not call must immediately return to the house, pack her belongings and go home. Christian, you walked in here and didn’t look like a model. The judges also looked at your photo and said: “There’s something that’s just not popping through.” Two of the judges even said she’s boring. Melrose… [Melrose is crying] …you had one of the most notorious model stereotypes, and we look at that photo, and we're like, "She had all that to go on? And she delivered that?" And then on top of that, the attitude that you had on the set is just not acceptable. [Monique looks right at Melrose who is still crying]

[still crying to Tyra] I'm so sorry.

Tyra

[to Melrose] It's a little too late for sorry, Melrose.

[still crying to Tyra] Yes. [nodding]

Tyra

[to Melrose and Christian] I have one photo in my hands...[flips over Melrose’s photo] ...and if we catch you being a diva in your next photoshoot, you're going home. [Melrose is still crying and goes down to the floor when she sees her photo; Christian starts crying when she realizes she is the first girl eliminated]

[still crying to Tyra] Oh my God! Oh my God! [touching the floor, Michelle and CariDee both look]

Tyra

[to Melrose] Are you okay?

[walks up to Tyra to accept her photo and still crying] Oh my God! Thank you so much! [trying to hug Tyra]

Tyra

[to Melrose] It's okay. Just breathe. [hugs Melrose] What do you think you learned today? Tell me what you learned.

[to Tyra] I learned that I can do this if I put my mind in the right spot.

Tyra

[to Melrose] And you're going to have to be waking up for a lot less than ten thousand dollars a day for a long time.

[to Tyra] I'll wake for, like, a dollar! [A.J. and Megan both laugh] Thank you so much!

Tyra

[to Melrose] Congratulations.

[to Tyra] Thank you.

Tyra

[to Christian] Come here, Christian. [Christian approaches Tyra for a hug] It’s okay. [hugs Christian who also hugs the top twelve girls and leaves the judging panel to go back to the house in Los Angeles]

[in confessional after getting eliminated first] I'm crushed. I’m not going to act like I didn’t want it because I did. I was just really hoping they would give me a second chance because I felt like I could have gone far in the competition.

[to Melrose] You look crazy! [laughs with Eugena]

[to Eugena] This is my look!

[to Melrose] Yes it looks crazy! [Melrose does her makeover photoshoot]

[to Frédéric Fekkai] You have to make it darker!

[to A.J.] Why don't we just change the other part?

[to Frédéric Fekkai] No! I hate this color! Please! [in confessional about her makeover] When I first got my hairstyle I was in complete shock. It's still a little bit too light for my liking and I'm not a smooth girl. I like spikes. [does makeover photoshoot]

Jay Manuel

[to J Alexander about seeing Monique crying out loud] J.! Miss. Monique. Look! Look! Look! Look! Look!

[placing a towel over her head and crying out loud to the hair stylist] Oh my gosh!!!!!! Why?!!!!!!!

[to Jay Manuel about seeing Monique crying out loud] If she wants to cry, then let her cry.

[to Jay Manuel about seeing Monique crying out loud] That's what she said. She said that nobody's ever seen her without her weave.

Jay Manuel

Oh, please! Look at that picture of Tyra on the wall! There's Tyra without her weave on! [later goes with J Alexander to check up on Monique, who is having a meltdown over her makeover in the bathroom] Girl, I am not in the mood for these girls.

[to Monique] Come here, girl.

Jay Manuel

[to Monique] What's the story?

[crying out loud to Jay Manuel and J Alexander] I'm just having a bad day! I can't even sleep 'cause it's like, the alarm's going off and...it's nothing I can't see!

Jay Manuel

[rolling his eyes at Monique] Do you want this career? This is not hard. You are getting a fresh hair weave by a master stylist, and if the alarm's going off, put in earplugs! [takes Monique with J Alexander, later in confessional] To see these young girls who supposedly wanted to be here so badly, to just kind of throw it off, and say, "Ugh! I don't like it!" [Monique does her makeover photoshoot] It just disgusts me, and it makes me not want to be here. [to all the girls] Guys, when you walk into this business, you walk into this business as blank canvases. I wish that when I was 18 or 19, I had people come in and take me to the next level. So, you hate your hair and you're actually being insulting to a master who's been in this business. [to A.J.] No, you were. Just listen for one second!

[to Jay Manuel] Right.

Jay Manuel

[referring to Monique] Miss Thing's crying up there because she got her tracks out and this, and that, and it's like...?! You're insulting our guests, you're insulting Tyra inevitably. I'm, like, over it! I'm just going to go home and sleep!

[in frustration over not getting into the elevator with Melrose, Jaeda, Amanda, Michelle, CariDee, Megan, Eugena, Anchal, Brooke and A.J. in time and getting disqualified from the CoverGirl make-up application, speed and presentation challenge on the fifteenth level] Freak! Stupid!

[in confessional] When Monique doesn't make the elevator, everyone is like "Oh! We're all getting beating up tonight! For sure!".

[to Jay Manuel] That's what I really got! [Jaeda does her crazy hair photoshoot]

Jay Manuel

[about Jaeda's photoshoot] Like a kid at Christmas!