Dellorefice Quotes

#1. Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#2. As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#3. I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#4. My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#5. People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#6. A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#7. I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#8. When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#9. We're all works of art in progress. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#10. I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#11. My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson? #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#12. I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza. #Quote by Marie Helvin

#13. There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#14. We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#15. There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#16. I hate a man who looks dirty. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#17. Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#18. I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.' #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#19. I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#20. We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#21. I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#22. I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically ... the vast population is over 50. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#23. I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity. #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#24. I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed! #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice