The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair? — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life. — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging.… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them.… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I was friends with Salvador Dalí until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
