Cameron Russell Quotes

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

The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.

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.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

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