Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Coco Rocha - Page 2

I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

Don't have just anyone run your social media. I think it's insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.

If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.

Everyone always remembers my dancing.

Models can be people, too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids. It kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before; a model hasn't done that before.'

Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.

I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.

I don't think it's fair for people to put fellow beings down just because they're only known for their looks.

I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

Be current. Know and comment on current trends and news. Don't be the last one entering a conversation.

Jean Paul Gaultier is not only immensely talented but also a genuinely sweet and kind person.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.

When I was asked to be a part of 'The Face,' I was like, 'This is exactly what I do without cameras.' I didn't find it any different than what I usually do for young girls - giving runway tips or just explaining how the whole industry works - but now you have, like, 19 cameras on you, documenting you while you scratch your nose.

I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.

I think balancing work and family takes constant adjustment. Its not something you can say you've accomplished and move on.

Whatever you do, never do the duck face - that's the worst look for any girl out there. Some girls think that pushing out their lips looks fabulous, but it doesn't.

It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.

Don't get me wrong: 'America's Next Top Model' is fantastic. They've done 20 seasons, so they've obviously done something right. But I think what ensures that the winner of 'The Face' will become a working model is the prize - a year-long contract with a cosmetics company is huge.

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

Braveness, for me, is running into my basement with no socks on. There are huge spiders down there!

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.

I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business.

When I started modeling, I didn't feel like I had a big sister to tell me how this industry works.

You can teach a girl how to model, how to take a pretty picture, and how to walk, but you can't teach personality.

When you wear something different, you have to be confident that not everyone may get it at first.

The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.

When I first started modeling, I had the chance to walk the runway with Naomi passing by me, but I didn't know anything about supermodels. But when I saw her backstage, she complimented me on my walk, and I thought she was so nice - everyone was freaking out that I didn't know who she was.

My faith is everything.

You always wonder when you get pregnant what projects and opportunities will come in or come knocking.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian 'Vogue.' Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, 'ugh' face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian 'Vogue.'

A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.

Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.

I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.

Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.

Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.