Bo Derek Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

It's been done to death and it's vulgar just to be vulgar. I find them so unappealing and so unattractive. The next group of films is just unbelievable.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

My character is an agoraphobic. She is afraid to leave her home or wherever her safe place is and in this case it's her home with her husband.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Trivia

Bo has been dating her current boyfriend, John Corbett for 3 years, the two met on a blind date that a mutual friend had arranged.

Bo and John purchased a ranch in Santa Ynez, California, where she ran a small horse breeding business for several years, facilitating the siring of her mares and acting as midwife at the birth of their foals.

Bo popularized the corn-row hairstyle in the late 70's, the more beads, the better.

Bo's mother was a hair stylist and makeup artist for Ann-Margaret, and Bo was backstage at one of her shows, when a theatrical agent approached her about pursuing a movie career, at age 16.

Bo never dreamed of being in films, or famous in any way, as teen. Instead she assumed that she would end up working in a surf shop.

Bo wrote her autobiography, titled Riding Lessons: Everything I That Matters In Life I Learned from Horses.

Bo has always remained intensley private about her private life, especially about her May-December romance and marriage to John derek.

Bo and her late husband, John Derek, Formed 'Svengali Productions' company.

Bo rejected the offer to play the Jessica Lange role in the 1976 remake of King Kong.

She won a Razzie Award for her acting in Tarzan, the Ape Man.

She is the stepdaughter of stuntman Bobby Bass.

Her Astrological sign is Scorpio.

She did the first USO tour for the troops in Europe after September 11th, 2001

She is a photographer of Fine Art Quality.

She was married to actor John Derek from 1974 until his death in 1998.