Model Quotes

• My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.

  

  David Seltzer
  • Model

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Up
  • Amazing

• I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Character
  • Deep
  • Model

• Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Son

• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • World
  • Economy
  • Looking

• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Model

• At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Man
  • Food
  • Best

• Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Up
  • She
  • King

• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Personality
  • Model
  • Say

• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Business
  • Model

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.

  

  Anna Friel
  • True
  • Mother
  • Alone

• I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Dream
  • Clever
  • Actress

• The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Country
  • Model
  • Competition

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Musicians
  • Actress

• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Family
  • Team
  • English

• LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Great
  • Society

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