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.
AGYNESS DEYNWell, 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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I 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.
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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’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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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 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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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’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 think a name defines the core of who you are.
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I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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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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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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It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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I suppose each project is a new thing, so there’s all this excitement and nerves about this new thing.
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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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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 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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It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That’s how I feel about Meryl Streep.
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I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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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 want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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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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