Models From The United States

"That is the ugliest effing wedding dress I've ever seen in my entire life."

"I mean, I'm not really what I've done to you, But I'll take a Pinot Grigio."

"which is I don't like working with other fucking people. That might make me selfish. Fine, then I'm selfish."

"It's my birthday, and what I say goes."

"She has this amazing skin it sets off color and clothes in a way white women couldn’t do,” Mr. Klein"

"I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It’s not the outside world – it’s your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence"

"I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don’t learn that."

"worldly, glamorous voice that has a sense of humor,” Mr. Kors"

"She’s a pretty girl, she’s already successful, and they need TV hosts. It just takes a while for the world to catch up with Iman",Ms. Hardison"

"I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through – the low self-esteem as a teenager – that is a right of passage"

"Refugees are 99 per cent of the time people who have left their countries in fear of their lives. I am the face of the refugee"

"Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good."

"I get my stubborn character from my country’s shape"

"When I was growing up in Somalia, my mom instilled in me, “Know your worth and know when to walk away from anything that doesn't serve you well. A man, careers, whatever it is—know when it is not serving you and walk away from it."

"It’s not just enough to say that she is beautiful or beautifully dressed, although that is a part of the equation,” Mr. Kors"

"Since I've been in America, I've always been intrigued by one phrase: "She is beautiful, like the girl next door." I have always wondered whose neighborhood they were talking about."

"How Somalia’s Iman Abdulmajid Carved out a Niche in the Modelling World 3 years ago,by Elijah Oluwagbemiga"

"First of all, you know this is a racist act, but let me put it to you from a different perspective: What I want is pay for services rendered. If I'm doing the same job as this person, I want the same pay."

"When you’re young, you don't always understand that you're making a change"

"On the runway, she exuded style. She was an actress, a natural. She knew how to sell the clothes better than anybody",Mr.Klein"

"My looks have changed. I have laugh lines – not wrinkles."

"an icon for our times, Michael Kors"

"It was really hard at first. I remember the first, the very first episode that we shot and I had to react to that Edwardian ghost, ghouly, kind of decrepit, scary figure that kept popping in and out everywhere. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. It's going to be hard using my scared face!’"

"The forbidden love, if you will, between Caleb and Miranda…it's something that we're developing but he's very respectful toward his relationship with Hannah. He doesn't do anything inappropriate, if you will. He's just very considerate of her and he's such a very loyal boyfriend."

"I actually found out when I did the chemistry read with Tyler. So I knew before signing onto the show and I was excited but I was nervous at the same time because I was curious to see where they can take a ghost storywise and really build on it throughout an entire season of the show."

"I loved it. The way that they were able to get all that violence in but still have so much fun and sarcasm takes a lot of talent. It’s definitely a great homage to the ‘80s with the references, costumes, and the music which was so much fun"

". For animation, you get to see the finished product faster. Video games sometimes take such a long time for them to finish. I’m sure it’s much more complicated. They have many more characters and scripts. In video games you’re never quite sure where the character is going to go"

"I was raised on TV shows where there were very few female characters that I wanted to pretend to be,” “My best friend, Lucyann, and I, every day after school, would play characters from The Rifleman. Because I was taller, I would be the father, Lucas, and she would be my son, Mark. It never occurred to us that there weren’t female characters that we wanted to play."

"What was so striking was the intense reaction to the film. It changed everything about how I chose roles moving forward."

"I only realised well into it that that was one of the things that was incredibly appealing to me,” Davis said, noting how she’s also gotten into archery, horseback riding, ice skating and sword fighting for other film roles. “You get satisfaction from how well you did instantly, without anybody else’s opinion having to come into it."

"Thelma and Louise end up driving off a cliff, and still viewers felt exhilarated by their story. It made me realize how few opportunities we give women to come out of a movie feeling inspired and empowered by the female characters. It changed everything about how I chose roles moving forward."

"I'm very fortunate I was in a couple of movies that really resonated with women and sort of struck a nerve."

"I was welcomed very well by the Italians when I arrived, because I was chosen for the role of Valentina. Imagine that the decision to choose me as the protagonist fell on me, after seeing well over five thousand women who auditioned. Of course I was nervous, but the staff and the entire production knew how to put me at ease and I immediately felt integrated. I certainly remember that she was very emotional."

"I must say that all the things that have happened in my life have happened almost by chance. I was a gymnast, then one day I was seen and chosen by the biggest modeling agent John Casablanca, founder of the Elite Model Management agency, who instantly catapulted me onto catwalks around the world. I immediately had the opportunity to model for the most important fashion designers, until I arrived in Japan. At just 17 years old, after graduating, I was already modeling as a model and was much appreciated in particular for my face which has somewhat Asian facial features, with upturned eyes. From there I did my first important advertising campaign as a testimonial for Shiseido and that was the opportunity for my real launch as a top model."

"My life has been, and is, full of experiences, a life that we can define as intense. I could say that perhaps I have lived three lives in one, having done so many things, and there are certainly many that I still want to do."

"Guinevere van Seenus, who I have photographed for more than 20 years, was one of the most important muses. Delicate but decisive, masculine but feminine, a hymn to creativity, imagination and dreams. (Paolo Roversi)"

"I always shave every inch of my body, even my arms, my face, my back. I literally shave everything."

"I've never been a fan of a G-string, I only ever wore one out of necessity on the red carpet or on photoshoots. Although what I wore was so revealing, I'm not sure you could call it a thong, perhaps just a piece of string."

"And one of the keys in what we do is we get to feel like we are extending beyond that human body, that human limitation, and we are touching something divine in what we do, if we’re lucky—or at least we’re reaching for it. But then what goes up must come down, and we have to honor the human body as well, so it’s a constant process."

"I love learning about other artists’ processes so much; I don’t know why. It’s like a magpie-collecting hobby of mine. I find it incredibly inspiring, and just as a human being, I’m like, God, I love people. I love it when people devote themselves to something that is greater than themselves, and they work at it."

"So to be in line with and to join in that creativity is, I think, maybe the highest calling. I think it’s all of our callings, to whatever degree or in whatever context, in whatever corner of the garden we’re meant to tend. And we know it. We know when we’re in the right corner, you know what I mean? We can feel it. We can feel it in our bones. Our blood starts to flow, our cheeks flush, we get that feeling of spring in our bodies, and we come alive. We can feel it when we’re close to the shoreline of ourselves, and then it’s harder to identify when we don’t feel it. It’s a strange thing."

"There’s no getting there in terms of finding that balance. It’s always a practice and a process. And one thing will work for a while and then it won’t work anymore; you have to find another practice to keep you centered. I think the trickiest part is just coming back to a level of real relaxation and ease in between working."

"I’m in a real period of not-doing. The usual aggressive, ambitious, driven heartbeat, rapping at the door has subsided for a while."

"There’s lots of practices I have, but the other problem is that I love what I do so much, but it can take me over. And that’s a great thing, and it’s a gift, but there’s a wound in that as well, as you’re kind of alluding to."

"But in terms of legacy, it’s not something that really interests me. I think I’ve developed a pretty healthy awareness of how small I am. Honestly, I think it’s because I’ve had to, because I have a pretty healthy ego and it can be boring. It’s a practice to be constantly remembering the perspective of the moon. You know what I mean? Like looking down on all my little problems and going, Dude, shush."

"I didn’t have to force my way into letting myself rest. It was interesting. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, the reason for this weird peace I’ve been experiencing. I think the loss of my mum was a big thing. That cataclysm is a forever-reverberating shift into a deeper awareness of reality. Existence. The shortness of this window we have. I think that’s working on me in profound ways that I’m probably not even aware of."

"We all die with an unfinished song, and that’s the setup. None of us complete. None of us finish the symphony. There’s a few notes left to be done, if we’re lucky."

"But there’s also a learned behavior there as well. Distinguishing between those two feels important because there’s times when all of us burn out. My mother, she would burn out; my father, my brother, me. We all have a similar drive, which is maybe inexplicable, where we want to offer ourselves fully to what we’re doing."

"If you have the sun sign that’s the same as the moon sign of someone else … that’s good."

"And honestly, I hadn't watched the Harry Potters until recently. [...] [Daniel Radcliffe]s really good in those Harry Potter movies. Those Harry Potter movies are really good. [...] I know it's like controversial, and like we shouldn't be, you know, putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that she'll remain nameless, but the soul and the spirit of a lot of the essence of the themes of those films and the kids are so.. and all the artisans and the craft people... [...] There are so many beatiful artists who worked on those films. Anyway, I have a newfound appreciation for all of the artists."