China Machado Quotes

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

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

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

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

I am a 100 percent determined to be a Victoria's Secret model.

I've gone from the edgy girl to the girl you call for H&M and L'Oreal, which is something neither I nor the myriad agencies that rejected me when I tried to get signed could have predicted.

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

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

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

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

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

Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

I developed acne when I was about 19, at the beginning of my modeling career. I didn't have the huge cystic-type of acne, but a lot of little bumps all over my face. They were small, but you could see them in photographs. You can't have acned skin and work as a model.

As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.

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