Quotes by Carmen Dell'Orefice

About Carmen Dell'Orefice:

Carmen Dell'Orefice is an American model and actress. She is known within the fashion industry for being the world's oldest working model as of the Spring/Summer 2012 season. She was on the cover of Vogue at the age of 15 and has been modelling ever since.
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When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!

Carmen Dell'Orefice

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I hate a man who looks dirty.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'

Carmen Dell'Orefice

I've grown up in the lap of the world.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

Author Bio

  • NameCarmen Dell'Orefice
  • DescriptionAmerican model, actress
  • BornJune 3, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Model