I’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.
AGYNESS DEYNAnd 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 love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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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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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I’m totally a grandma.
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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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I can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”
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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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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.
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Well, I suppose I’ve never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don’t get cabs; I’m on the Tube with my Oyster card.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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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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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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I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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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’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 just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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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’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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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 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 felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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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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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 know I’m no Whitney Houston.
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