I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
AGYNESS DEYNFor modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I’d go into a shoot, there’d be all these dresses, and I’d say to myself, ‘Okay, this isn’t me. It’s somebody else. So, who is this person?’ Acting is the next level of that.
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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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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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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn’t matter what their exterior is.
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I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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I think that you can’t fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That’s my focus.
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I’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.
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And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.
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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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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 love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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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!
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I don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.
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I don’t expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
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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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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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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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I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.
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I can’t just settle for anybody. The fact is I’m choosy, but mainly about a man’s character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don’t even mind if he’s not very good-looking.
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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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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’d done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: “Wow!” They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: “I definitely want to do this!”
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I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.
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I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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