Top 45 Agyness Deyn Quotes
#1. Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
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#2. When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'
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#3. I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.
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#4. I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.
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#5. I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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#6. 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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#7. 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. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.
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#8. 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. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.
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#9. 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, I was like: "I'm actually doing this." And now I feel more confident going into something.
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#11. 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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#12. I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.
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#13. I suppose each project is a new thing, so there's all this excitement and nerves about this new thing. Every single thing is like a new thing, so it's never what I expect. I don't know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It's interesting.
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#14. I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.
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#15. I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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#16. 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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#17. I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. 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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#18. 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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#19. If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.
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#20. I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. 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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#21. I can't do modeling disconnected. And I thought, "What do I like? What do I love about modeling?" 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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#22. 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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#23. 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.
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#24. 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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#25. I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' 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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#27. I feel like every project that I've been doing, I've learned something about myself. It's like I've cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider. I'm just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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#28. 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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#30. 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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#31. I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.
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#32. I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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#33. I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.
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#34. 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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#35. I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. 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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#36. I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.
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#37. 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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#38. 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. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.
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#39. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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#40. I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.
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#41. 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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#42. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
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#44. A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
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#45. Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
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