Cameron Russell Quotes

So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

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.

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.

And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

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

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

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.

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

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

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

It's really hard work being a model.

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.