Quotes from Lauren Hutton

I had always broken the rules.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

We need a new religion.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I discovered myself!

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Life is what we do when we're on the way to live it.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!