Linda Evangelista famous quotes

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Beauty

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Artist #People #Helping

I like glamour. Not afraid of it.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Glamour #Vogue #Not Afraid

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Years #Careers #Would Be

I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Yoga #Healthy #Fit

God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Jobs #Trying #Friendly

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Fashion #Mean #Should

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Son #One Day #Want

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Thinking #Advertising #Turned Down

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Jobs #Casts

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Grateful #Long #Want

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hair #Colour #Experiments

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hair #Next #Faults

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hair #Sick #Restaurants

All I want to do is model. The reason I'm coming back is for the same reasons that I became a model initially. It's about the clothes and the creation of great pictures. I thought I was old and that I earned my retirement, and enough! It's not enough. I want more. And I'm lucky that I still have that option.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Retirement #Clothes #Lucky

I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day....
-- Linda Evangelista

#Bed

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Beautiful #Teacher #Teaching

Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Coffee #Sugar #Mocha

We have this saying, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Fashion #Wake Up

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Loss #Weight Loss

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Italian #Two #Months

Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.
-- Linda Evangelista

#People #Proud #Likes

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Team #Dollars #Hiv

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Vogue

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Anniversary #Thinking #July

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak
-- Linda Evangelista

#Funny #Long #Want

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input, I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting down. And I'm not scared to say what I think.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Thinking #People #Sitting Down

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Jobs #Athlete #Next

I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Beautiful #Fall #Thinking

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Years #Three

If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Work Out

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hours #Working It

I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Fashion #Firsts #Love Fashion

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Thinking #Long #Dresses

I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Heart #Exercise #Thinking

No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Eye #Eyebrows #Perfect

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Stars #Rocks #Rock Star