Lily Cole Quotes

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

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

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

I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.

I always recognized that modeling would allow me to see and do a lot, so I looked for opportunities to learn and grow.

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.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

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 am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.