China Machado Quotes

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

I have no nationality, no country.

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves.

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.