Occupation: Fashion Model Birth: June 3, 1931
We're all works of art in progress..
My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and….
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….
I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it..
There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love..
The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in….
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..
I'm totally formed by my mother's interest in fashion. As a Hungarian immigrant, she couldn't afford clothes. She made all her clothes from patterns.….
Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life..
If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?.
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?.
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 alterati….
I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or ne….
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 sol….
The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it..
You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life..
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker..
If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself..
When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' W….
We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life..
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..