Quotes By Nicole Richie

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

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 never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

I have really great friends.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think I look okay.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.