Quotes About Modeling

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.

Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?

When I think of 'Instagram models,' I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.

The bit that I've always loved about modeling is show season: the hype, the chaos, the calm just before you walk out. It's your moment - especially when there's no one before you.

Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.

I've hardly walked the ramp with Milind. I was in school and college when he was a top model. By the time I entered, he was on his way out.

Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

I feel that modelling has groomed my personality and made me a confident person, but even today, when I go on the ramp, I get nervous. I am more comfortable being in front of the camera than walking on the ramp.

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!'

I don't like walking the ramp.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

Bones don't make for success on the runway, but a proportioned, balanced body does.

To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

My whole life, even as a kid, I would say, 'I want to be on a billboard!' To be on a fashion billboard, for a brand, is a life dream.

I really like walking for brands where I like the clothes, because it's a big part of the whole thing.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

I never had a proper modeling career. It was not something I succeeded in. Once I started acting, that's when the fashion world kind of embraced me.