Acting Quote by Stacy Martin

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

— Lou Doillon

I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.

— Vikrant Massey

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all…

— Naomi Campbell

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no…

— Laura Prepon

I used to be a model, but acting was never on my mind.

— Shaheer Sheikh

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes…

— Melissa McCarthy

I didn't go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You…

— Jamie Dornan

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would…

— Diana Penty

Had I not been a model at the beginning of my career, probably acting would not have happened.

— Neha Dhupia

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough,…

— Olga Kurylenko

Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall…

— Tricia Helfer