Amber Valletta Quotes

If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'

Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

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 want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

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

I started modeling at the age of 14, when I was in Std 9.

Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

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

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

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

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

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

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 modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

Modeling is where my career started, and it's not something that I think I'm ever going to fully say goodbye to.

I did a bit of baby modeling. I loved it.