Dylan Penn Quotes

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 will definitely hook up my daughter if she decides to be a model.

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.

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

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.

I happened to be spotted by a modeling agent who offered me a part-time job at 16. Everything happened very quickly after that - advertising campaigns, fashion shows, editorial shoots.

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 was doing a little modeling on the side. Then 'ANTM' found me on social media, and it pretty much flipped my life around, all for the better.

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.

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

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 never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

It's really hard work being a model.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!

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

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

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

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

When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch.

So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.