Michael Bergin Quotes

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

I guess you can consider photo shoots modeling, but it's never really interested me. I find it somewhat boring, actually. It wouldn't be something I would do.

I was an underwear model for Calvin Klein for a few years. It is not something I wanted to do at first. I never regretted it, but I am a shy person, and to stand there buck naked in front of a camera was scary.

The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

I model jeans. You need a bum for those.

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

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

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.