Top 34 Orefice Quotes
#1. You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
Roberto Benigni La Vita E Bella
#2. I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.
Marie Helvin
#3. A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#4. People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#5. I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#6. As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#9. There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#10. I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#11. We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#12. My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#13. I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.
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#14. My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#15. I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#16. I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#17. You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#18. I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.
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#19. I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.
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#20. If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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#21. Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.
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#22. Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.
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#24. I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically ... the vast population is over 50.
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#25. I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain.
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#26. My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.
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#27. I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
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#28. The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
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#30. I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.
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#31. I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
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#32. I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
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#33. When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.
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