Quotes by Lauren Hutton

• I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
• When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!
• We need a new religion.
• A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.
• Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.
• Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
• I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.
• I discovered myself!
• I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.
• I had always broken the rules.
• I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!
• There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.
• I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.
• In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.
• Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
• No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
• That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
• The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
• I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
• I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.
• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.