Tali Lennox Quotes

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.

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

My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

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

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

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.

When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

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

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

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 don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

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

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

When I was 17, my mum thought it would be a good idea to compete in a modeling television show. It was hard for me to book jobs in Australia at this time, being that my look was so different. Even though I didn't win, I was given a modeling contract with New York Models, so I flew to New York as soon as the show was finished.

I never wanted to be a part of the industry, as I had no knowledge about it. I am one of those rare and really lucky people for whom the calling identified me and not the other way around.

When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.