Phrase by 'Carmen Dell'Orefice'

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I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Live , Things , Box , Curtains


Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  You , Myself , Money , Mother


My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Life , Say , My Life , Amazing


People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Life , Good , Strength , Positive


There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  World , Window , Youth , Humble


Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Me , Never , Nothing , Looking


My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Death , Dream , Muscle , Tall


I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Me , Women , Mother , Relationship


As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  Identity , Solitude , Personality , Silent


I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice - American Model
  You , Know , Work , Woman


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