Jerry Hall Quotes

I want to carry on modelling for years to come.

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

I see girls that I know - I absolutely know - will be star models within just a matter of weeks, and they always are.

I came from modelling industry so I am part of fashion industry. It is not that I hated being part of glamorous film.

So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 - ancient, for the industry - and everyone was so happy to see her. As I've gotten older, I've experience the same thing. People are just thrilled to see me modeling!

Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

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.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

It's really hard work being a model.

I had already been approached to do modeling, but in the beginning, I didn't want to hear of it. Then, after two months of delivering pizza, I changed my mind, and I presented myself at the agency.

I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

When I was little, I never wanted to be a model or really thought of doing this job. I'm from a small city, Yongzhou Hunan in the south of China - not a big place for fashion.

I started modeling before '1992,' and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had been modeling for a little bit.

I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.