Cara Delevingne Quotes

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 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.

A huge part of my life as an actor has revolved around fashion and beauty - just by default. It's such a big part of the business.

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.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

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

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

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.

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

Throughout the years I've been working as a model, I've gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying.

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

I'm a model, and I happen to model for curvy things, but at the end of the day, I'm still in front of a camera just like anyone else.

Weirdly enough, in my 14 years of modeling, I've only worn a blonde wig three times. I have no idea why I've never been given the option to really try blonde as a model. But here I am doing it on my own.

When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.

Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.

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.

With wearing makeup a part of my job as a model, one might think I'd get tired of it, but I absolutely love it.

While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

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

That always stuck with me. When I finished school in 2015, I started going to open calls in New York. But I was getting the same response every time: 'Get your measurements down. Take X inches off your thighs and hips.'

When I started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.

Turns out moonlighting as a model is harder than I thought!

I love modeling, and I want other girls to enjoy the experience.

Many of us endure pain in the service of beauty every single day. We rip off our hair with hot wax, jam our soft skin into modern-day corsets, and burn our scalps with dyes.