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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
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. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement – and if you’re over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing’s worse than saggy duds. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
There’s always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
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. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically… the vast population is over 50. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
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. Carmen Dell'Orefice Read Quote
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 Read Quote
