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title: "1 Cover Vogue Quotes By Carmen Dell'Orefice"
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> [Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/being-on-the-cover-of-vogue-at-15-meant-nothing-to-me-i-never-really/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

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## More by Carmen Dell'Orefice

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/there-s-no-way-i-would-have-got-to-see-so-much-of-the-world-with-my/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [I've grown up in the lap of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-ve-grown-up-in-the-lap-of-the-world/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [We're all works of art in progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/we-re-all-works-of-art-in-progress/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/my-mother-was-harsh-and-constantly-told-me-i-had-jug-ears-and-heaven/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/when-you-understand-how-to-do-that-dance-when-the-photographer-says/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-m-a-working-woman-of-80-trying-to-work-out-what-the-image-i-can/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-understood-that-synergistic-dance-between-photographer-and-object/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-was-friends-with-salvador-dal-until-the-day-he-died-lucky-me-i-can/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [ I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. \[...\] Today I am… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-have-had-more-magazine-covers-in-the-last-25-years-than-i-have-had/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-don-t-believe-in-funerals-i-believe-in-celebrating-life-and-showing/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-was-the-kate-moss-of-my-day-atypical-of-what-the-public-wanted/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/a-lot-of-people-around-me-were-really-staggeringly-rich-which-i-never/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [I hate a man who looks dirty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-hate-a-man-who-looks-dirty/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/i-respect-gloria-steinem-enormously-but-i-never-wanted-to-be-in-any/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

> [Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-dell-orefice/being-on-the-cover-of-vogue-at-15-meant-nothing-to-me-i-never-really/)

[Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-dell-orefice/)

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