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.
AGYNESS DEYNI 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’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
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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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Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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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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I dont have that many friends.
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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’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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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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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 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 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’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 expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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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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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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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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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 dress like a tomboy.
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I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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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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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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