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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 got into modeling, made a portfolio, and entered films because I just wanted to be financially stable.

— Rimi Sen

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending…

— Geena Davis

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

— Payal Rohatgi

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

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

I always knew I wanted to go into acting. So I dropped out of the modelling circuit and started taking acting and dance lessons.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.

— Rahul Dev

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the…

— Alan Arkin

I was doing specialisation in advertising. I had no interest in acting. One of my friends, who was doing specialisation in films, made a…

— Kratika Sengar

So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I…

— Lea Thompson