Stephanie Corneliussen Quotes

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'

I didn't decide to be a character actress.

There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I don't really view myself as an actor.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

This is the way I see it: I've worked really, really hard for Tamera Mowry. I will eventually change my name to be Tamera Housley, but I'll be Tamera Mowry - that's going to be my acting name.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.

I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.