Charlie Hunnam Quotes

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

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

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

I went to a local modeling school when I was about 10 and learned to walk the runway.

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

There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

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.

On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

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

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

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

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.

I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

I did a lot of modeling in the U.K. A lot of it wasn't high fashion because I don't have the body or the face for high fashion modeling. I did a lot of sportswear, swimwear, and beachwear.

Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.

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.