‘My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.’  Paulina Porizkova

‘I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up having little scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those with sequins all over them.’  Cindy Crawford

‘When I model I pretty blank. You can’t think too much or it doesn’t work.’  Paulina Porizkova

‘I think, If my butt’s not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn’t be too big for me.’  Christy Turlington

‘I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.’  Derek Zoolander

‘I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don’t have to speak.’  Linda Evangelista

‘I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.’  Cameron Diaz

‘A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.’  Lauren Hutton

‘Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It’s like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.’  Carre Otis

‘Hopefully I’ll get to make another movie, so we’ll see. But modeling – all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers.’  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

‘I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you’re on your own because I’m not traipsing around London ever again like that. It’s a nightmare.’  Kate Moss

‘Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don’t want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, ‘What do I want to wear?’ and, ‘What do I want to do with Topshop?’ It all kind of leads into the other things.’  Kate Moss

‘Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.’  Christy Turlington

‘There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.’  Carol Alt