18 Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes for You to Enjoy

Carmen Dell'Orefice

American Model

Born: Jun 3, 1931

Life Me Money Mother People You

There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Love Whatever Else Give Always Boyfriend Up

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

Positive Life Health Good Strength Good Health Me Courage People Big Think Enough Marketing Spin See Glamour Look Piece Challenging

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

Saying Thought Loath Interviews Out Generally Were Asking Meant

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

Home Me Money Mother Enough Enough Money Would Could Until She Rent Leave Were Often Poor Rooms Us Foster Raise

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

Director Husband Become Cinematographer Telling He Make Him His Get Should Paid Who Card Second Kept

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Death Class First Become Year Too Dancer Dream Tried I Tried Had Over Over It Tall Without Bed Ballet Ballet Dancer Falling Left Fever After Even Grown Tone Muscle

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

Live Would Had Put Stuff Box Curtains Cardboard Cardboard Box Things

I've grown up in the lap of the world. Carmen Dell'Orefice

World Up Lap Grown Grown-Up

We're all works of art in progress. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Art Progress Works

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Life My Life Papers Computer Get Rid Even

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

Life Think I Think Fact Vast Over Beyond Because Accepting Bulk Exists Up America May Population Growing Growing Up

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other. Carmen Dell'Orefice

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Life Mother Difficult Had Oceans Very Apart

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

Me Happy People Money Rich Stayed Never Between Around Real Were Been Lot Real Money Walked In-Between Which Really

We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. Carmen Dell'Orefice

Life Myself Me Age Yourself People Ugly Wake Up Listening Mind Be True My Life Half Other Took Voices True Know Know Yourself Make Gospel Opinions Wake Up Contribution American American Children Listened Just Stop Children Public Them Program