We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It… — 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
