Coco Rocha Quotes

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.

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

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

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

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.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

I never thought I'd be the type of girl who'd be doing, like, fashion shoots.

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.

People think fashion shows take hours - it's 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down... and then it's over.

My very first runway show, I was in 'Vogue.'

I do love to have pictures taken and to pose and wear fabulous gowns, so red carpets are a comfort zone.

When I started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

I was 19 or 20 when I won Miss India and then did some exciting work in fashion.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I had a fantastic time as a model.

I have dreams and aspirations of taking a stroll down the ramp at a pay-per-view setting. Everybody has those dreams as a kid, and that'd be really cool.

I absolutely love it. I feel so proud and so happy when I am on a catwalk.

Ever since Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai made headlines, every other girl in India wants to be a beauty queen. I was no exception.