Top 151 Modelling Quotes

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn’t dissuade me.

If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.

I rarely had the opportunity to work as a full time model or to pursue a professional career in modelling, because school was always my priority.

I want to establish myself as someone who can act and doesn’t have to rely on my figure or modelling background.

Modelling has really helped build my confidence.

I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got ‘Issaq’ through auditioning.

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.

Cambridge Analytica never took receipt of any data or undertook any modelling on behalf of Leave.E.U.

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

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.

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I’m completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.

I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

I wasn’t sure if I would survive in the film industry in the beginning. So, I gave myself six months to see if things fall in place, and luckily, soon after I moved to Mumbai, I began getting modelling and acting offers.

What I have always loved about modelling is the chance to play a part. I am quite shy naturally, but I like getting into somebody else’s head space, understanding how people work and the psychology behind their actions.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it’s difficult to get back to studies.

I’m more comfortable modelling as a man because I don’t get any criticism.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don’t look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

It’s interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that – he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

When I first started out modelling, I was binding my chest at gigs to make sure my physique was able to be ‘passable’ as male. But now, I never bind. It’s highly unsafe and unhealthy.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I’d sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

I’ll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I’m dreaming of pursuing forever.

I couldn’t survive just doing independent movies. And I’d rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn’t like.

I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don’t want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.

The modelling just happened. It was fun, and a good way to earn money.

I remember when I started modelling and being the only non-white girl in the fashion show. I was grateful to be there, but at the casting, there had been many beautiful women of different descriptions, and I was wondering why they were not being represented.

Modelling is something I couldn’t see as my forte or something that I would do for the rest of my life.

I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter’s range for JD Williams almost forty years on.

I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.

I’m only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that’s small, so I wasn’t getting signed, but I kept on pushing.

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that’s why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren’t that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.

I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.

Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you’re modelling – to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you’re doing.

I think modelling comes naturally to me as I have done it for a long time.

I played soccer when I was younger so I thought I was going to be a soccer player for a long time. But then when I started modelling I finished up with soccer because it was too much.

I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

I didn’t think there was life after modelling, believe me. It’s a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can’t do something.

I came from modelling industry so I am part of fashion industry. It is not that I hated being part of glamorous film.

I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn’t planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

I loved the travel but I didn’t love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Modelling killed me.

We must incorporate climate modelling in future plans and investments. Whether it is policies on crop procurement, skilling and job creation, urbanisation or even beach tourism, climate adaptation pathways will have to be imagined.

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It’s such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn’t been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn’t have any intention of becoming an actress.

I wouldn’t say films are a natural process after modelling. Films are more complex. There is not much connection between ramp shows and films.

During my school days, I’d tell my friends that one day I would be a television star. But my parents weren’t too keen about me venturing into acting. Eventually, they gave in and allowed me to start modelling.

While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective on a larger scale. But computer modelling indicates that restoring forests on floodplains could slow floodwaters and reduce the height of the flood downstream.

If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

I had started modelling and doing ramp shows. Then I signed the ‘Kama Sutra’ campaign. Overnight I became known as this sexy, hot chick.

If I wasn’t modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer.

I was originally granted a visa for people of extraordinary abilities, then got a green card thanks to my modelling background and now I am officially an American with dual nationality.

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

Acting is something I’m interested in, and I’ll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

I don’t feel pride when I look at a magazine spread I did for Vogue, but writing is really satisfying to me. I can go so deep into people’s interior lives, slowly and with complexity, over years and years sometimes. That’s very rewarding, in a way that modelling never was.