Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

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

I'd never planned on being a model.

When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!

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

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

When I started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.

I was 19 or 20 when I won Miss India and then did some exciting work in fashion.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I'm a model, I have to be confident in front of a camera otherwise I wouldn't be doing my job.

Whether you're walking the catwalk or whether you're in front of the camera, there's no such thing as a signature pose or signature look or even a signature walk.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

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 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.

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

I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns.

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.