Carol Alt Quotes

No, I don't think I have the same body type as the other models in shows. No, I don't think I am the best at any given show. Yes, I want a unique walk, but I also know I have to improve.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

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.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

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.

'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.

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.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

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

I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.

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

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.

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.

Mariacarla Boscono has taught me a lot, and I have been lucky enough to become good friends with so many amazing models.

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.