Paul Marciano Quotes

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

I do love to have pictures taken and to pose and wear fabulous gowns, so red carpets are a comfort zone.

I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to shoot a girl in a couple weeks in Italy who has been writing me for a couple years. She sends photos all the time and it's kind of like a game. A lot of times people write and then they just want to see if I'm interested. If I say I am, I never hear from them again.

I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like "who me?". I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.

I'm very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

The one that achieved the greatest amount of success is the Eagles. And because it was really successful, it was a lot more fun. It still is. We get a chance to play music that a lot of people really relate to, and to play places all over the world. That's fun.

I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.

I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

Mariacarla Boscono has taught me a lot, and I have been lucky enough to become good friends with so many amazing models.

My whole life, even as a kid, I would say, 'I want to be on a billboard!' To be on a fashion billboard, for a brand, is a life dream.

One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.

Most of my friends are in the industry - photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.

I like the Chanel mascaras.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

Besties Adwoa Aboah and Cara Delevingne have lot in common. They are both beautiful It Brits with impressive modeling chops - and matching half-heart tattoos that symbolize their unbreakable bond.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

Everybody would like to be on the cover of 'Vogue.'

And just seeing yourself on buses and billboards in even the smallest town of any country in the world, it's overwhelming sometimes and it's amazing and it's unbelievable.

My job in the Tour is to get the sponsor's logo in the most prominent place.

I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

Women, for Gucci, as you can imagine, are very important.