Top 340 Modeling Quotes

My love for cricket, body-building and martial arts later helped me in modeling and then acting.

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

When I started modeling, it was like, ‘Oh, she’s too dark,’ and I kind of looked at them like, ‘You’re too daft.’

I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn’t very interested in modeling at that point.

Modeling really helps me find my confidence and break out of my shell.

I used to hear people say that models have very short careers, which I don’t really agree with… I think that even when you grow old, you can still continue modeling if you have that willingness.

Hopefully I’ll get to make another movie, so we’ll see. But modeling – all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers.

Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn’t speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

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.

Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these creatures around the world and how much water they can filter, it is likely a significant amount.

During my initial days of modeling, I started dating men much older than my age who would pamper me silly with expensive gifts.

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

I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it’s also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

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 have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

I was doing a little modeling on the side. Then ‘ANTM’ found me on social media, and it pretty much flipped my life around, all for the better.

My parents raised me to put school first and modeling and extracurriculars second.

Even when I first started modeling, my loyalty to those girls like Molly Goddard, Ashley Williams, and Dilara Findikoglu was important. I like to support them as much as I can. For me, it’s as important to walk in their show or wearing their clothes as it is doing a Marc Jacobs show.

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.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of ‘Sports Illustrated.’

I’ve always had it inside – this ability to read people, how to get into someone else’s head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it’s the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.

I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there’s probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they’re unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you’re never pretty enough, you’re never thin enough.

It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.

I was into theatre in school and college with theatre personality Barry John, who has also trained Shah Rukh Khan. Then I joined the Elite modeling agency – they have different courses including grooming, modeling and theatre workshop. I was selected for modeling.

I went to Africa the first time when I was 14 and first starting out in modeling. I went for a campaign and I just fell in love.

I like doing the editorial stuff because it’s nice to do something that’s more me. But modeling for brands and the things to make money… I guess I don’t really like being the mannequin. It’s a very strange concept.

I’m honored to kickstart my acting career with Louis Vuitton, which I’ve worked with throughout my modeling career.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.

Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

I love modeling, and I want other girls to enjoy the experience.

I didn’t come to L.A. thinking, okay, I’m going to be an actor, so my progression was just kind of organic, starting in print modeling, which I was far less successful in, then acting in television commercials.

I’ve learned more from makeup artists in my nine years of modeling than from my mother. She always told me not to wear any makeup. I try to keep my skin and hair clean and give them a rest when I’m not working.

I had 30-something years’ experience in modeling, which is rare.

People always ask me if I’m going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

Modeling is also the first job I’ve ever had where it’s my job to love myself. While many people think that modeling would chip away at your self-esteem, it’s actually bolstered mine tenfold.

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

I was discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess when I was actually, like, two years old. And so I started with Baby Guess; I did Guess Kids, and then I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player. I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling.

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.

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.

My favorite part about modeling is probably my least favorite part as well. It’s traveling. Because it goes both ways. It’s so amazing to get to see the world; we’re so fortunate to go to all these places that I would never be in unless I was a model.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

I didn’t want to miss out on my education to model. I can’t do just modeling.

I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they’re modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.

I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn’t popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl – tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn’t do the ‘tall’ because I was 5’2, and I couldn’t do the skinny, either.

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 had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I’ve always tried to be self-sufficient.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn’t really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn’t see the point – although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn’t devoted to it.

And anyway, modeling wasn’t for me. I’m too short. I’ve got a big butt. It wasn’t going to happen.

I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 – ancient, for the industry – and everyone was so happy to see her. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve experience the same thing. People are just thrilled to see me modeling!