Modelling's Quotes

#1. Modelling's not something I want to do just on its own, but I always want it to be a part of my life.

Alice Dellal

#2. I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Suki Waterhouse

#3. People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

Jasmine Guinness

#4. The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

Twiggy

#5. I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

Esha Gupta

#6. At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

Saffron Aldridge

#7. In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Erin O'Connor

#8. I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Brooklyn Decker

#9. I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

Halle Berry

#10. When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.

Grace Jones

#11. I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

Agyness Deyn

#12. I have created a capsule collection for Genetic inspired by memories of growing up in LA. Denim has always been my go-to, especially during my modelling days. I discovered Genetic Denim about five years ago - they are so comfy, you could almost be wearing your pyjamas.

Liberty Ross

#13. Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Suki Waterhouse

#14. If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

Lisa Snowdon

#15. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

Ludivine Sagnier

#16. Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Piers Corbyn

#17. People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

Abbey Clancy

#18. To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

#19. Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

Malaika Arora Khan

#20. In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

Azzedine Alaia

#21. Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

Lily Cole

#22. Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

James W. Black

#24. How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling.

Samantha Shannon

#25. From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.

Twiggy

#26. I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

Marc Jacobs

#27. I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Chloe Sevigny

#28. She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow of surface from the temples over the cheek is exactly like the carving of a Phidean goddess

Walter Deverell

#29. Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter ... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

Colin Welland

#30. The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls.

Crystal Evans

#31. It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

Francis Collins

#32. What I like about modelling is that it has given me that opportunity to travel and experience different cultures, work with creative people, and now it's given me a voice, and with that voice hopefully I can do good things with it.

Miranda Kerr

#33. My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

Alyson Hannigan

#34. I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, but I kept on pushing.

Charlotte McKinney

#35. Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

Kendall Jenner

#36. Okay, people. Onto the next shoot before I loose my cool. Let's see how many naked models we can fit in a cage. I hope you all love each other very much.

Iris Blaire

#37. It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.

Melanie

#38. From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Milla Jovovich

#39. Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Bernard Beckett

#40. I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

Kate Moss

#41. I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

Christina Hendricks

#42. I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

Twiggy

#43. Dressing is like modelling - you can constantly adapt.

Kate Moss

#44. I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

Kris Holden-Ried

#45. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

Jerry Hall

#47. Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

Jerry Hall

#48. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.

Lew Wallace

#49. I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

Carol Alt

#50. There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.

Gabriel Mann

#51. My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

Twiggy

#52. I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

Sharon Stone

#53. I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Daria Werbowy

#54. I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

Agyness Deyn

#55. I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

Suki Waterhouse

#56. Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#57. I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

Jessica White

#58. I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.

Marie Helvin

#59. For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

Bipasha Basu

#60. Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Caitriona Balfe

#61. I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue.

Kate Moss

#62. When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

Marie Helvin

#63. At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.

Iman

#64. At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

Alberto Giacometti

#65. It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

Bipasha Basu

#66. During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

#67. I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

Jamie Dornan

#68. Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

Anthony Goldbloom

#69. With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Olga Kurylenko

#70. Think about someone, such as a teacher who may have inspired you. Their care and love must have shone through. That is the reason to follow those who set a good example of life.

Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

#71. I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

Pattie Boyd

#72. When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'

Agyness Deyn

#73. What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.

Mie Hansson

#74. Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Agyness Deyn

#75. All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

James Lovelock

#76. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Helena Christensen

#77. Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

Jamie Dornan

#78. For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

Agyness Deyn

#79. In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

Helena Christensen

#80. When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

Jerry Hall

#81. I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

#82. I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.

Lily Cole

#83. I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

Maddie Ziegler

#84. Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Jessica White

#85. What I have always loved about modelling is the chance to play a part. I am quite shy naturally, but I like getting into somebody else's head space, understanding how people work and the psychology behind their actions.

Liberty Ross

#86. Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

Erin O'Connor

#87. Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.

Edith Wharton

#88. I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

Kendall Jenner

#89. When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Gigi Hadid

#90. Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

Caterina Murino

#91. Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Christie Brinkley

#92. My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

#93. I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)

Erica Packer

#94. I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

#95. I wouldn't say I was really into fashion before modelling; I was into creation.

Erin Wasson

#96. I know that I won't be modelling forever, but I think I'll be in the entertainment industry. I would love to host a talk show one day or have a cooking show. I love to cook ... I'm really open, so we'll see.

Gigi Hadid

#97. If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

Agatha Christie

#98. What exactly constitutes an emergency in a modelling agency? Two girls fighting to death with a hair straightener?

Kate Forster

#99. When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

Ben Mendelsohn

#100. It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.

Erica Packer