Helena Christensen Quotes

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

No one ever came up to me and said: "You need to reshape your body, to lose weight, or to be more outgoing, or less outgoing". We were just allowed to be us, and I think at the end of the day, isn't that the whole point of being a human being? To be allowed to be yourself, to be accepted the way you are?

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know ... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

I'm a fun person. I like cracking jokes and being completely nerdy.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid you show the nipples! That never ceases to amaze me.