Helena Christensen Quotes
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.
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 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.
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.
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.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.
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.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.
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.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
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.
I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!
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.
It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
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.
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!
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.
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.
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.
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
