Nicole Richie Quotations

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

Pack an outfit to change into on the plane.

You have to be comfortable in what you're wearing.

The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it's important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.

I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

She is somebody that our readers really look up to as a fashion icon in the making,

She looks like a skeleton, ... I was horrified at how skinny she is.

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Keep the five. I'll do you a favor...I'll take the ten!

I would never put my own personal marriage on television,

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also. I just really didn't understand why he wasn't returning my phone calls, or why I couldn't see him whenever I wanted to. That was the most hurtful thing to me.

This was actually the first one I tried on. But then all the models came in for fittings, and I was like, 'No, I want to wear that one, no, I want to wear that one.' They were like, you have to decide because we need to fit the models.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on...

The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.

I'm a jeans and t-shirt type of girl.

When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.

I have really good instincts about friends.

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

I grew up with him and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient. It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.

I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try.

Australia is one of my favorite places in the world. I spend a lot of time there. And I find Sydney a lot like LA in some ways, and it's beautiful, great for kids, and I absolutely love it over there.

I'm a Virgo and the sign is a virgin. So when I was 16, I got the word virgin tattooed on my wrist, thinking I was sooo deep and cool. And now I just look really weird having virgin written across my wrist and I have to explain it.

I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

I have to wear heels. There are some things that you just have to do.

Spending time by myself is VERY important to me and I wake up pretty early, I wake up around 5 in the morning, and I get to have a couple hours to myself, and that is definitely I think really important to me and I think it's important for moms to have that too. And I love to carve out time for myself and sometimes I'll hang out with girlfriends, but i like to keep things pretty intimate.

I don't trust valets, waiters — nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.

I like to sleep so much that I wake up exhausted from sleeping so hard.

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

We always need to have a smart black blazer in our closets. It's just a nice clean way to dress up even something as simple as jeans and a t-shirt. And something I always have in my closet, I always have a vintage headscarf with me, to tie around my bag or protect my hair from the sun, it depends but I always find a use for it.

Well my favorite thing about being a mom is getting to relive your childhood all over again, that's one of my favorite things. And my favorite thing about being a wife? I have more freedom to just be crazy, because he's already stuck with me.

I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

It's very easy for me to say that i think everybody should just be treated how they're supposed to be treated and tattoos shouldn't come into play. But what if someone has an offensive throat tattoo that might affect someone's business? I am sure there are a lot of opportunities out there for everybody.

I encourage costumers to not focus on trends but to just wear whatever they feel like wearing because I think that's when a woman looks most attractive - when she's the most comfortable.

I've always been someone who's extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I'm not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple - I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.