Name Quote by Lydia Hearst

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had…

— Kathy Ireland

My father told me I couldn't possibly be a model because I was too short. He's very protective. I did it partly to prove…

— Catherine Oxenberg

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in…

— Jessica Lange

What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

— Maud Adams

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

— Penny Lancaster

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade…

— Natasha Henstridge

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder…

— Suzy Amis

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my…

— Nargis Fakhri

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

— Bar Paly

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

— Riley Keough

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of…

— Eoin Macken