Lara Dutta Quotes

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

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

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

When I was little, I never wanted to be a model or really thought of doing this job. I'm from a small city, Yongzhou Hunan in the south of China - not a big place for fashion.

I want to carry on modelling for years to come.

I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.

Fashion is really a place where every other industry connects, whether it's music or acting. At the end of the day, everyone is going to walk the red carpet and be interested in the fashion side of it. I think that's really cool because as a model, you get to connect with a lot of different worlds.

Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

I see girls that I know - I absolutely know - will be star models within just a matter of weeks, and they always are.

I've always known that I wanted to do something in entertainment and fashion.

One of my careers just before ring announcing was that I worked as a model.

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

I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.

At 16 years old, I was signed to my very first modeling agency. That was my first real introduction to the entertainment industry. It really opened my eyes to a world that was available to me.

I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.