Lauren Hutton Quotes

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself

To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

If you don't have passion, change.

People like to say you're either born with style or you're not, and that's complete hooey. You've gotta develop your own and find your own.If you just put on whatever they're trying to sell you, you will always be out of fashion. Otherwise, they can't keep selling you. So, you will always be out of fashion. Get used to it. That's the game. Whatever they say is fashionable, chuck it.

We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

I had always broken the rules.

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

We need a new religion.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

Life is what we do when we're on the way to live it.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

I'm not really a movie star. No matter what I do in acting, whether I'm good, how much work I get, whatever, I never will be a movie star. Because I never think of myself as one. You are a movie star because you think of yourself as a movie star and always have.

I'm the oldest pretty face around.

I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.