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Top 15 Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes (2025 Update)

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “We’re all works of art in progress.”

1. “We’re all works of art in progress.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?”

2. “If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “There’s always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.”

3. “There’s always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “I don’t live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.”

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

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “Fashion is more about taste than money – you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it’s all about the fit. I do the alterations myself – I’m quite a seamstress – it’s the influence of my Hungarian mother.”

9. “Fashion is more about taste than money – you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it’s all about the fit. I do the alterations myself – I’m quite a seamstress – it’s the influence of my Hungarian mother.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.”

11. “We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “If your ceiling is falling down, don’t you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.”

12. “If your ceiling is falling down, don’t you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.”

14. “I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “Even with a computer, I can’t get rid of all the papers in my life.”

16. “Even with a computer, I can’t get rid of all the papers in my life.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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?”

17. “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?”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

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