Top 33 Helena Christensen Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I was born in high heels and I’ve worn them ever since.

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

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

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 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.

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

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

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

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

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

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

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.

I wasn’t worried about turning 40 at all.

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.

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.

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

So many times I’ve wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer’s having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I’m on the verge of hysteria.