My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I’d be like, ‘Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!
AGYNESS DEYNI’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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I’m all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend.
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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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When you’re young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, ‘This is totally the truth’, ‘cos you don’t know any difference, so there’s a real confidence in your way of thinking.
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I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.
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I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.
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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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I just want to do whatever makes me happy…Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun…being a bit daft.
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I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching ‘Badlands’ and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
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I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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I feel like every project that I’ve been doing, I’ve learned something about myself. It’s like I’ve cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider.
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You know, even though I’m in fashion, I don’t, like, do fashion. Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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You watch her, and you can’t help but notice all of that about her. She’s so influential.
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I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.
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For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run.
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I didn’t hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
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I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
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I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk.
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I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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