Kim Woo-bin Quotes

I went to a local modeling school when I was about 10 and learned to walk the runway.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Modeling is where my career started, and it's not something that I think I'm ever going to fully say goodbye to.

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.

Turns out moonlighting as a model is harder than I thought!

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

I dreamt of being an Aerie model before I came to New York. That was one of the main reasons I came to New York and wanted to get signed.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I started modeling at the age of 14, when I was in Std 9.

A lot of people have the misconception that modeling is a glamourous job, and it can be. But ultimately if you don’t like to stay quiet, and let people tell you what to do, and fuss on you… it may not be the right fit. If you decide it’s something you’re really passionate about though, go for it!