Tyra-Isms: Straight From the Model's Mouth
Source: By CHRIS JANCELEWICZ
Posted: 12/03/07 4:19PM
Filed Under: Top Model
During ANTM season, there's nothing better than host Tyra Banks' random quotes and theories. Keep on coming to see an episode-by-episode breakdown of the most outrageous (and sometimes confusing) things that she, the contestants, or the other judges have to say.
Episode 12
-- Jay Manuel (before the runway show): "Stomp it to death."
-- Jay Manuel: "You can't do Rome without some men."
-- Tyra: "I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You need to squint with your eyes open."
Episode 11
-- Anya: "[Dominique] drains all my energy. I feel like I'm melting."
-- Tyra (to Dominique): "Master your face. That's your challenge."
-- Miss J. (about Dominique): "That's why they call it Cover Girl. It covers up the man in you."
Episode 10
-- Tyra: "OK, let's do more fashion, and less sex."
-- Tyra: "You'll find that it takes away the hooch."
-- Paulina (on Katarzyna): "The problem is your face."
Episode 9
-- Anya: "My first step in Italy and I bit it."
-- Anya: "It's hard, you know. We have to walk and put on lipstick at the same time."
-- Tyra (on Fatima): "You're selling sexual chocolate."
-- Miss J. (on Lauren's commercial): "Hell to the no."
-- Jay Manuel (on Whitney's falsity): "It turns into Bitcherina so quickly."
Episode 8
-- Lauren: "I could kick the s--t out of those girls anytime."
-- Nigel (on Lauren): "I'm seeing a different girl today. Maybe it's the thumb coming off."
-- Tyra (on Dominique's photo): "That's a great booty tooch."
Episode 7
-- Miss J. (on Katarzyna): "I really like Neutrogena."
-- Paulina (on Lauren): "I actually found her less Frankenstein-y this time around."
-- Anya (on Jay Manuel): "He looked like a silver robot."
-- Tyra: "H2O, oh no you didn't, girl!"
Episode 6
-- Claire: "When I'm pumping milk, I have to think of [my daughter] and my milk is drying up."
-- Claire (to Dominique): "You're a shady bitch."
-- Tyra: "Fierceness. Fierceness."
-- Tyra: "You guys do period pain so well."
-- Dominique: "The monkeys are dancing and being their nasty and dirty selves."
-- Paulina: "This picture is like a bad Vegas."
-- Tyra: "A clippity clopping if she survives this week."
Episode 5
-- Dominique: "I keep working it. That's what Dominique is all about."
-- Dominique (to Whitney): "Don't twitch your head at me."
-- Tyra: "I say this every season. You girls have to learn to squint with your eye open."
-- Tyra (to Whitney): "Woah, bitch. Work iiiiiiiit."
Episode 4
-- Miss J. (on Fatima): "Honey, you walk like a Clydesdale."
-- Miss J. (on Lauren): "Do your legs bend?"
-- Miss J. (on Amis): "She was one step away from blowing kisses."
-- Tyra (to Fatima): "Your face was all crazy tiger growls."
Episode 3
-- Tyra: "We're gonna wea-wea-wea-weave, down, down, down!"
-- Stylist: "It's unbe-weaveable!"
-- Guest judge (on Dominique): "I thought she was someone's mom coming to pick her up from the shoot." >>> (OUCH!)
-- Marvita: "I was hella-juiced."
Episode 2
-- Tyra (to Fatima): "You need to exaggerate your poses more, because you get lost in nothing."
-- Miss J. (to Dominique): "You're just so dragilicious you couldn't help yourself."
-- Tyra: "It's cycle 10! Holla!"
-- Paulina (to Dominique): "You look like Robin Wright Penn, the transvestite version."
-- Marvita: "And I'm like, this ho is trippin'!"
Episode 1
-- Shaya (an eliminated contestant): "I like to create beauty because I'm beautiful."
-- Amy: "You guys wanna check out my pubic hair?"
-- Dominique: "All this." (said while squiggling her finger over her body)
-- Miss J. on Katarzyna: "She's sex on legs."

















