Diana Penty Quotes

I started modelling in college, but it was part time since I was kind of nerdy and wanted to finish my studies.

Modelling is an incredible platform.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

I'm like the Russian Tyra Banks.

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

I've been modeling since 2012, when I was 18, so I am used to following a crazy schedule.

My mom used to be a model.

Modelling is something I couldn't see as my forte or something that I would do for the rest of my life.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

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.

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.

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.