Quotes About Modeling

I've never personally been anorexic.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.

With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.

Just being a model and having been shipped off to Paris at 17, I wish my mom could have been at some of those photo shoots because there are some creepy people out there.

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.

I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.

I can't stand when girls come to me and say they want to be a model, but they can't tell me who the top three photographers are in the world. They can't tell me who the top five biggest models are or name three cosmetics companies. They can't even name the top fashion magazines! You have to get it together and know your stuff.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

When I was in high school in Paris, some photographers wanted my photos and asked if I was interested in modeling. I wasn't interested because I wanted to get my education first. I was scared because I didn't know what I was getting into.

As a kid, I always looked up to supermodels, thinking about how amazing they are. I always wanted to be in photos.

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

I think, in general, models tend to do their favorite faces or their comfortable face, but your facial expression is just so important. You don't want to have an editorial of 20 photos where it's just you giving a 'Zoolander' face.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no expression whatever. I think you need to use your physicality, your sense of humour and your emotion when you model.