Explore Quotes by Carmen Dell'Orefice

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

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

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.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

We're all works of art in progress.

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.

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.

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?

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

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.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

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?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?