Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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 don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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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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I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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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 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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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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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’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.
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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 dont have that many friends.
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Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn’t matter what their exterior is.
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I dress like a tomboy.
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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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