I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
AGYNESS DEYNI get on with all my exes, so there’s nothing I need to forget about. I don’t know – life is shorter than it seems.
More Agyness Deyn Quotes
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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 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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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 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 don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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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’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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For 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 can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”
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Not just in modeling, but in society, there’s so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it’s just so unobtainable.
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I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
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Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It’s hard work, but really wonderful.
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I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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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 don’t know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It’s interesting.
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I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
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Please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over!’
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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don’t know where they get it from, sometimes.
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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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I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn’t about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial.
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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 dont have that many friends.
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I’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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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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