Olga Fonda Quotes

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

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.

It's really hard work being a model.

I see girls that I know - I absolutely know - will be star models within just a matter of weeks, and they always are.

Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.

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.

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

I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

Modeling is a lonely business.

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

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

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

Modeling was a way of financing my fighting. My fighter friends definitely made fun of me: 'I've seen you in your underwear, bro!' But once they realized the girls loved it, they asked, 'How do I get into it?'

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

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

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.

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.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

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

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