Stella Maxwell Quotes

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.

Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.

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

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.

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 enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

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.

My son doesn't really want to model as a career, so I am not worried about him entering into the industry.

I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.

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

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.

Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

I've always been a part-time model since I graduated from high school. I was hired by one of the major agencies, Wilhelmina in New York, so I modeled there and played basketball during the school season.

I happened to be spotted by a modeling agent who offered me a part-time job at 16. Everything happened very quickly after that - advertising campaigns, fashion shows, editorial shoots.

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.