Mia Goth Quotes

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 lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

The fashion world has become a lot more embracing of me since I became an actress.

I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

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

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

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 don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.'

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

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

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

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

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