For 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.
AGYNESS DEYNI think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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I’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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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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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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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 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 suppose each project is a new thing, so there’s all this excitement and nerves about this new thing.
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Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn’t matter what their exterior is.
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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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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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I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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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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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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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 dress like a tomboy.
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