Around Quote 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…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I've grown up in the lap of the world.

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

We're all works of art in progress.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I hate a man who looks dirty.

— Carmen Dell'Orefice