Bar Refaeli Quotes

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

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 got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

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.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

'Anna Nicole' came from Guess Jeans; Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends, we were sitting around coming up with a stage name, and that's where that came from.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

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

I didn't really like doing commercials.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

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

I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

Not every model wants to be an actress.

My whole life, even as a kid, I would say, 'I want to be on a billboard!' To be on a fashion billboard, for a brand, is a life dream.