Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
— Kate Moss
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
I like creating images.
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
It's a sin to be tired.
There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.
There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.
