Quotes About Opportunity

I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.

I'll be working a lot more on film than modeling.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

When I came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

With acting, if I'm any good at it, my modeling career would never be a hindrance but would rather be a help. And if I'm not, then it doesn't really matter.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

A lot of actresses start out modeling because it's a great way to sort of get your foot in the door. That's all it is, though. They open the door, and you have to walk through it.

I just fell into modeling.

There are still many places around the globe I would like to explore, and I'm going to trust my modeling career to take me to at least some of them!

I am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.

I've been chasing some paychecks. Modeling. I don't discriminate against paychecks. I've got to pay the bills.

Basketball is my main sport, which I got a lot of scholarships through, but I chose modeling over basketball, though.

Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.

When I first started in modeling, I went back to England, and it was really hard, because I would go around to the agencies and they would be like, 'We already have one mixed-race black girl.'

I want to open businesses, invest in different things, and put more time into modeling and acting.

In college, students would do modeling to earn money. I was also doing the same.

Modeling was sort of a way to not work in a bar - it gave me time to really think about what I wanted to do, and things I liked and didn't like.