China Machado famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

#Thinking #Age #World
I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.
-- China Machado

#Clothes #Dresses #Shops
I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.
-- China Machado

#Practicals
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
-- China Machado

#Roots #Soul #Macau
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.
-- China Machado

#Girl #Successful #Thinking
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.
-- China Machado

#Use #Type #Bigs
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.
-- China Machado

#Lying #Night #Naps
Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.
-- China Machado

#Fashion #Age #Looks
No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
-- China Machado

#Men #Want #Bills
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.
-- China Machado

#Dresses #Stylist #Wonderful
I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.
-- China Machado

#Makeup #Water #Ponds
I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.
-- China Machado

#Beautiful #Wonder #Harder
I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.
-- China Machado

#Done #Happened
I have no nationality, no country.
-- China Machado

#Country #Nationality
A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.
-- China Machado

#Cameras #Needs #Projects

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