Modelling Quotes

• I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

  Halle Berry

  Meaningful, Oasis, Order

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• When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

  Helena Christensen

  Silent Films, Creating, Body

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

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• 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.

  Helena Christensen

  Meaningful, Sea, Brain

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

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• Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Positive, Sexy, Different Faces

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• Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do

  Kendall Jenner

  People, Want, Prove

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• All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, Hot, States

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• I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

  James Black

  Passion, Progress, Tissues

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• I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Catwalk, Walks

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• I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

  Agyness Deyn

  Fun, Laughing, Wanted

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

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  Cameron Diaz

  Acting, Stories, Ends

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• I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

  Sharon Stone

  Jobs, Mcdonalds, Waiting

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• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  Piers Corbyn

  Weather, Climate, Limits

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• If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Journey, Light, Years

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• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

  Tony Parsons

  Swimming, Thinking, Guy

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'

  Agyness Deyn

  Fall, Firsts, Catwalk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

  Agyness Deyn

  Thinking, Scary, World

  "From the bland to the blonde". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2009.

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• I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

  Marc Jacobs

  Ideas, Clothes, Suits

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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

  Lily Cole

  Dream, Heart, Forever

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

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• My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Mom, Baby, Jobs

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

  Brooklyn Decker

  Mean

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• There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.

  Gabriel Mann

  Fashion, Genius, Passed Away

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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• I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

  Christina Hendricks

  Girl, Running, Self

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Science, Errors, Remember

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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