Top 33 Quotes by Carmen Dell'Orefice

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

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.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain.