Stephanie Sigman Quotes

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-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 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.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.

Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

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 think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.

I always had an interest in wanting to act, but my family wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, and we didn't know anyone. We didn't really even know how you begin to crack that nut.

I used to be a model, but acting was never on my mind.

I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.

When I came to Mumbai, I had no experience in acting 'til I actually did it.

I love acting and would love to do it more. It's harder to go into acting as a model now than it ever was because so many models are doing the same thing. I want to do anything that's challenging and not within my comfort zone, and a Bond girl is so different to who I am.