Top 40 Helena Christensen Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Helena Christensen

2. “Because your child is your first priority, your’re more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special. You cut out the bull – that you might fall for if you didn’t have responsibilities.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

4. “Don’t tell anyone. I’m supposed to be dumb.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

7. “There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

9. “I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.”

— Helena Christensen

10. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

11. “I’ve taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.”

— Helena Christensen

12. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

13. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

14. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

16. “It’s flabbergasting. I can understand if you have your legs spread and you’re pushing yourself into the camera – that’s sexually erotic. But the sensual contours in the male or female shape? Come on, guys, relax.”

— Helena Christensen

17. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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18. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

20. “I love breasts. I love the female shape. It’s crazy – you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid you show the nipples! That never ceases to amaze me.”

— Helena Christensen

21. “Modelling is a silly, crazy business.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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23. “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.”

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24. “I wasn’t worried about turning 40 at all.”

— Helena Christensen

25. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

29. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

31. “Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!”

— Helena Christensen

32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

34. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

35. “To tell you the truth, I’ve never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don’t know.”

— Helena Christensen

36. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

37. “There’ve been times when I’ve bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.”

— Helena Christensen

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

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39. “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.”

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

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41. “I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.”

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42. “Like any woman, I worry about my body.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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.”

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen

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

— Helena Christensen