Top 100 Quotes About Modelling
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
Agyness Deyn
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
Olga Kurylenko
#7. 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
#8. I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.
Jamie Dornan
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
Iman
#13. 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
#14. I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue.
Kate Moss
#15. Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
Caitriona Balfe
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.
Jessica White
#19. 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
#20. I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.
Suki Waterhouse
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. What exactly constitutes an emergency in a modelling agency? Two girls fighting to death with a hair straightener?
Kate Forster
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I wouldn't say I was really into fashion before modelling; I was into creation.
Erin Wasson
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.
Jamie Dornan
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.
Jerry Hall
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.
Marc Jacobs
#50. 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
#51. How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling.
Samantha Shannon
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.
Azzedine Alaia
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
Piers Corbyn
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.
Suki Waterhouse
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!
Brooklyn Decker
#66. In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
Erin O'Connor
#67. At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
Saffron Aldridge
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.
Twiggy
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.
Jerry Hall
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Dressing is like modelling - you can constantly adapt.
Kate Moss
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
Chloe Sevigny
#84. 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
#85. Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
Cameron Russell
#86. Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
Janice Dickinson
#88. 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
#89. From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
Milla Jovovich
#90. I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
Estella Warren
#91. When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.
Andie MacDowell
#92. 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
#93. I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
Olga Kurylenko
#94. Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Cameron Diaz
#95. I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.
Lily Collins
#96. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.
Liberty Ross
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.
Reeva Steenkamp
