Isabella Rossellini Quotes

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

I'm like the Russian Tyra Banks.

Everybody would like to be on the cover of 'Vogue.'

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'

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.

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

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 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.

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

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.

During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.

I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.

I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it.