Modeling Quotes - Page 14

• Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

  Amy Winehouse

  Musician, Causes, Posing

  "Amy Winehouse: Unplugged" by Polly Vernon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 14, 2010.

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• A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

  Donella Meadows

  Vision, Pages, Path

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• A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Marriage, Giving Up, Mean

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Rehab, Facts

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.36, Macmillan

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• L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Wall, Writing, Winter

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• So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself blushing. 'I can’t do that,' I said. 'Why not?' he asked. 'Is it so hard to believe? You think I’m not a good role-player?' 'No,' I said. 'It’s just–' 'Because I am. Everyone wanted me to be their mother in group.' I just looked at him. 'I just… It’s weird.' 'No, it’s hard. But not impossible. Just try it.' A week earlier, I hadn’t even known what color his eyes were. Now, we were family. At least temporarily.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mom, Mother, Believe

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• When I was a girl I creeped in the boys locker room
  Hide deep inside, it was my little creep stalker room
  As they disrobed I was oogling & oggling
  Little did they know that for me they were modeling

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Flirty, Boys

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• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Mom, Cousin, Eight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Working was a new thing; waking up early in the morning and going to bed late at night... But I’ve met a lot of nice people, I've been to New York, London, Paris. I like traveling. Now I cannot imagine my life without modeling.

  Barbara Palvin

  Morning, New York, Nice

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• I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

  Kirsten Dunst

  New York, Years, Three

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• The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

  Diane Kruger

  Perfection, Doubt, Trying

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• I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

  Carre Otis

  Fall, School, Making Money

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• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Girl, Jobs, Soda Pop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

  Danny Masterson

  New York, Play, Acting

  "Danny Masterson ...dazed & confuzed". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.

  Danny Masterson

  Acting, Four, Five

  "Danny Masterson...dazed & confused". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

  William Baldwin

  Jobs, New York, Couple

  "Billy Baldwin: William Tells". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. August 1, 1995.

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• The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

  Boris Kodjoe

  New York, Paris, Whole

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• A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.

  Joan Miro

  Depth, Movement, Limits

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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

  Joan Miro

  Color, Simplicity, Three

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• Mitt Romney looks like a guy modeling briefs on a package of underwear ... He looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes ... He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping ... He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership.... He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial.

  David Letterman

  Running, Golf, Guy

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• Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

  John French Sloan

  Nice, Losing, Form

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• Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Women, Media

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

  Lily Cole

  School, Perspective, Grounding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

  Lily Cole

  Simple, Ideas, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

  Lily Cole

  Ideas, Knowing, Advertising

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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