Patricia Velasquez Quotes

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

Throughout the years I've been working as a model, I've gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.

Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.

What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

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.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

I've been modeling since 2012, when I was 18, so I am used to following a crazy schedule.

I started modeling before '1992,' and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had been modeling for a little bit.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

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

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

My son doesn't really want to model as a career, so I am not worried about him entering into the industry.

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.

Not every model wants to be an actress.

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

I always recognized that modeling would allow me to see and do a lot, so I looked for opportunities to learn and grow.