America's Next Top Model Season 1 quotes

Tyra

[to Kara and Sundai in the bottom two] Kara when you came into the competition, Mr. and Ms. J. and I said, 'Whoa, face.' And in your first photoshoot, you showed us just how special that face was but from week to week to week, we see someone less invested in this competition. We see someone struggling that seems lost and does not know how to be found and then we have Sundai, the judges see you as an underdog. The shortest girl in this competition. In the pictures, the judges feel you are stuck in a three-quarter face. As a model, it is important to be versatile. So who stays? [flips over Sundai's photo] Congratulations Sundai.

[in confessional after getting eliminated seventh] I just fell really disappointed in myself. I hope that I'm still able to do modeling but right now it obviously doesn't feel like such a viable option. I feel like what was even the point of coming into this competition if I was just going to go home in the middle of it? If I wasn’t going to win? I left Costa Rica and bought plane tickets for this. [cries] If I didn’t want I wouldn’t have came!

[to Nicole during the Insider interview] Because of the pressure she's under, she turns to drugs and then, after she goes to rehab, she finds out she's pregnant.

[in confessional about the Insider interview] I remember you have to make connections with what they say and keep rolling with it. And so, I think pregnancy and I say... [back to the present to Jessica Lowndes during the Insider interview] And have you ever had kids yourself?

[to Nicole the Insider interview] No! I'm twenty years old, so no. I haven't had kids.

[to Nicole] You let your nerves get the best of you! You asked a couple of really inappropriate questions!

[in a repeat scene to Jessica Lowndes the Insider interview] And have you ever had kids yourself?

[to Nicole] Not the type of question you want us to answer!

[in confessional about Erin] Erin was inconsiderate.

[in confessional after getting eliminated eighth] So it's the end of the Top Model journey for me, I really haven't allowed myself to think about it but I cannot wait to see my daughter. I miss her so much. Now that I have this taste for what modeling can really be all about, I have even more of a passion for it and I'm ready to go out there and work to achieve this dream.

[in confessional] My commercial sucked. I just got really stressed. I got really frustrated. I'm only eighteen but I have to get better at shutting off the fact that I'm disappointed and just keep working.

[in confessional about Erin] Erin is the most annoying person in the house. Sometimes I just don't want to be there.

[in confessional about Brittany] Brittany better watch her attitude. She's still up and down with how well she performs.

[in confessional about Erin] She has spoiled brat syndrome.

[in confessional after getting eliminated ninth] It's definitely hard to say goodbye but I'm so proud because I get critiqued like, 'Oh, you look like a catalog model.' What little math nerd doesn't want to hear that? That's a great compliment to me. So it's really frustrating to think that it's over with but it is difficult being a petite model, and this competition is the first time petite models are really going to be shown to the world, so I don't feel like this is the end. I just feel like this is the jump-off point.

[in confessional] I was so sure that I was going home. Panel wants to see me succeed, so I don't want to let them down. It's just a lot of pressure. I'm 18. This is the biggest thing I've ever done with my life. I definitely need to prove myself at the next photoshoot.

Tyra

[to Erin and Sundai in the bottom two] Sundai you had twice the amount of photos that Erin had and probably 10-times the amount of excuses. You said that you have asthma, but many divers have asthma, and also athletes and models. We don't want our photos to be the product of our excuses and then we have Erin, a girl who was at the top of this pack when this competition started but from week to week, it's getting weaker and weaker and weaker and Erin you had half the amount of photos and it showed.

[in confessional after getting eliminated tenth] I definitely underestimated myself coming into this competition so that's one thing that I've gained here is confidence. I got a lot from this, so I'm glad I had the chance to be here. Life does go on and it's going to have to go on. I'm going to have to keep doing well as I go through the rest of my life. I can't just give up here.

[in confessional] I am scared out of my pants. In a way, I feel like Nicole already has a seat in the Top 2 because she's never done poorly and Laura's never been in the bottom two and I've never been in the bottom two. Yeah, maybe Erin's done poorly, but the judges love her. I honestly don't know how tomorrow's going to go.