Quotes About Modeling

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

I owe a lot to sports. My athletic ability made the transition from modeling to wrestling very easy.

I don't know that it needs to be a transition from modeling to acting. I think that they can both exist at the same time.

I was planning to transition right after high school and attend university as a girl, but then the modeling thing came up. It was an opportunity to see the world. My family knew I identified as a girl, but I didn't tell people in fashion.

A core attribute of the effective leader is the act of inspiring and developing others. Leaders model by their actions.

But not for him. "This is the crux of science," he'd say with enthusiasm. "All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction." Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

None of the sample sizes ever fit me at the photo shoots. One would think that would've made me want to lose weight, but I just got rounder.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.