A Quote by Ines de La Fressange
I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
Related Quotes
There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.
99.9% of fighters would do anything to have the career I've had, yet people keep telling me to make changes. What for?
As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.
I had the freedom to choose my career. I had the opportunity to choose a career in sports. It's what I'm most passionate about. It's what I love.
People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.
The time Yash and I planned to get settled together it was difficult for me. I remember my career was at high peak and I had to make a decision. I choose to keep career aside for my marriage and I'm proud of it.
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared
My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
I don't come from a very ambitious family. We weren't entrepreneurial. We weren't hard-working academics, or setting up businesses. But for some reason, when I started doing fitness, I always had this voice in my head telling me to keep going - keep going, and people will eventually follow.
My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.
Related Authors
Ashley Graham Quotes
American
Model
Chrissy Teigen Quotes
American
Model
Christy Turlington Quotes
American
Model
Coco Rocha Quotes
Canadian
Model
Emily Ratajkowski Quotes
British
Model
Gigi Hadid Quotes
American
Model
Gisele Bundchen Quotes
Brazilian
Model
Grace Jones Quotes
Jamaican
Model
Heidi Klum Quotes
German
Model
Irina Shayk Quotes
Russian
Model
Jerry Hall Quotes
American
Model
Kate Moss Quotes
English
Model
Miranda Kerr Quotes
Australian
Model
Nina Agdal Quotes
Danish
Model
Tara Stiles Quotes
American
Model
Tyra Banks Quotes
American
Model