Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Cara Delevingne

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Cara Delevingne

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne is an English model, actress and singer. She signed with Storm Management after leaving school in 2009. Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014.

I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was. — © Cara Delevingne
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
Embrace your weirdness! — © Cara Delevingne
Embrace your weirdness!
I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.
As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.
I like to keep my private life private.
Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
I love red or deep purple lips for events.
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.
I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
I hyperventilate quite a lot.
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. — © Cara Delevingne
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.
I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.
I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana. — © Cara Delevingne
I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
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