"I loved the travel but I didn’t love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!" ― Brooklyn Decker Topic(s): Travel More From Brooklyn Decker "The ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, ‘You know what, I really… I don’t want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.’ And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment." "I’m named after a horse. My mom’s best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ‘Brooklyn’ as a more formal version, and it just stuck – and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure." More In Travel "An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."― Paul D. Boyer "I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."― John H. Speke "The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience."― Michael Palin