Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

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

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.

Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

I arrived in Los Angeles on the Monday, had a call from my agent to say they wanted to see me for 'Dallas,' made an audition tape at my friend's house in L.A. the same day, and had the job the following Monday.

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.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

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

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

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

I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

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