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.
AGYNESS DEYNFashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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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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You watch her, and you can’t help but notice all of that about her. She’s so influential.
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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 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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Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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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’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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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 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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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 know I’m no Whitney Houston.
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I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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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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I’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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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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I don’t know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It’s interesting.
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I dress like a tomboy.
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I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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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 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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I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.
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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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A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don’t know where they get it from, sometimes.
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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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