Lily Cole Quotes

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.

There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

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.

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

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.

I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it.

I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the '90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

A lot of girls that work really hard and have had long careers, and stay grounded. I love Carolyn Murphy, she is gorgeous. All the VS Angels! They work super hard and have the sweetest personalities.

The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.