America's Next Top Model Season 1 quotes

Tyra Banks

I like this picture of you, Chris, in the wide. It has a—a sexuality that borders on a slight hoochie, but you didn't get off on the hoochie stop. You've stayed on the train.

[to Ann] You.

Ann Ward

[barely audible] Hello, I'm Ann.

[inhales sharply] Are you sure you're alive?

Smile. [Ann smiles] Not like Frankenstein. Smile!

André Leon Talley

[describing Ann] There's some super power pushing her. There's a force of nature that's propelling her.

Ann Ward

[on how people used to treat her] All these comments about being too tall, or just being not normal—

Nigel Barker

Guess what? You're not normal. You're America's Next Top Model.

Tyra Banks

[spoofing stereotypical contestant] I'm nineteen years old and my favorite designer is Hello Kitty. I would do anything, anything, anything to become America's Next Top Model... except cut my hair.

Tyra Banks

[spoofing stereotypical contestant] I want this. My name is [pointing to letters tattoed on arm] Angora Nylandra Tafatia Michaels. I'm not here to make friends.

Jay Manuel

[referring to "sexiness" of contestant Monique Weingart] You might be bringin' the wrong crowd to the table.

Or the right crowd, if you ask me. Go on, baby!

Jay

[after Dominique falls during the plastic bubble runway challenge] Girl down!

[in confessional] I'm like, "You know what? We're about to end this bitch with a bang!" So, I was like, "Voila!" Like, "I'm out this bitch!"

Tyra Banks

[pretending that this cycle's contestants have all been eliminated] So, unfortunately, you guys have to go home now. But you don't have to go far. [pushes button to reveal this season's "model house"] Because you're home! You guys are the fourteen!

Jaclyn Poole

Oh my gosh! They tricked us! I see my picture over there and all the other girls' pictures and I'm one of those fourteen girls and I couldn't believe it!

I'm obsessed with Jaclyn!

I am ready to work it! I am America’s Next Top Model! Recognize my face and get used to it!

Today we were inside of this big-ass bubble, looking like a gerbil.

Nigel Barker

Nicole isn't truly present in this shot—and the mouth, you know, it's too tight. [unintelligible] sort of cat's bottom. [purses his lips to illustrate]