Samara Weaving Quotes

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

I think to be a good model, you have to enjoy having your picture taken, and I never really did.

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.

Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is finding a way of enjoying it.

It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it!

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.

I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

I'm actually rubbish at selfies. I always feel a bit ridiculous doing it unless I'm with a bunch of friends, where I'll usually stand at the back with a huge grin on my face!

I occasionally buy a bikini, but I'm too shy to wear it.