Words matter. These are the best Cara Delevingne Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don’t ask for it. You just have to live with it.
Ooh, I’d love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something… I don’t know!
I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: ‘That’s not cool, that’s really mean.’
Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn’t horrible, really – it’s amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
You never realise that you have an impact on people’s lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of vintage and High Street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. I always go for comfort, and like feeling confident and casual.
My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don’t eat.
It’s hard finding people you trust or who aren’t going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you’re doing. It’s a nightmare.
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5′ 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
This modeling thing, it’s pretty easy, but actually it’s also really tough.
I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don’t have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
I’m a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
I got a tattoo saying ‘Made in England’ above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
I think it’s nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
Embrace your weirdness!
I have a great support network – my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They’re just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
I’d like to be curvier.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.
The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It’s being fake in front of the camera.
I love a vintage look that’s also a bit rock n’ roll.
I want to fall in love, I think. I’ve never. I know. Everyone I know’s been in love or in relationships now and… There’s only ever been… there’s been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I’m a bad girlfriend.
The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I’d want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I’m a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they’ve been dyed back much darker – like jet black, where you can’t even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren’t even the same color!
It’s strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
Kids should speak to each other. They’re horrid to each other online, they bully each other – they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It’s too much, too young.
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
As a child, I used ‘gay’ as a bad word, as in, ‘That’s so gay.’ All my friends did.
As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
When you model, there’s no way you can’t notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you’re constantly surrounded by people saying, ‘Oh, she’s too short, she’s too skinny, she’s this, she’s whatever.’ And you’re right there. They’re talking about you, and you’re right there.
In the ’90s, I wouldn’t have been a supermodel.
I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn’t paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won’t do it. Because if you accept less, you’re just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I’m always myself – jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
There’s a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there’s nothing on your face… I’m still not very good at it, and I’m learning slowly.
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career… Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
I get a lot of girls who say, ‘I just want to be a model so badly.’ And I think: ‘You can do better than that.’ I mean, look, I do love it, I’m not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.
I’m quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara’s Mascara!
I love curves; I’m all about curves. I don’t have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
I want to behave more like a boy… I want to be the strong one.
As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it’s all about trainers and flats.
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder – it makes you so self-aware.
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.