Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes
I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
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.
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.
I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.
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.
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.
If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
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.
If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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.
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.
