Kim Alexis Quotes

If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.

When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves.

To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.

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.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

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.

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

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

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

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

The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

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.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

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.

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

Not every model wants to be an actress.