Top 35 Agyness Deyn Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.”

— Agyness Deyn

2. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

3. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

4. “Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.”

— Agyness Deyn

5. “I’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.”

— Agyness Deyn

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6. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

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7. “I dress like a tomboy.”

— Agyness Deyn

8. “I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.”

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9. “If you have a connection to someone, it doesn’t matter what their exterior is.”

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10. “I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.”

— Agyness Deyn

11. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

12. “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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13. “Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.”

— Agyness Deyn

14. “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!’”

— Agyness Deyn

15. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

16. “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 Deyn

17. “To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.”

— Agyness Deyn

18. “I know I’m no Whitney Houston.”

— Agyness Deyn

19. “I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.”

— Agyness Deyn

20. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

21. “I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.”

— Agyness Deyn

22. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

23. “Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.”

— Agyness Deyn

24. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

25. “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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26. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

27. “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 Deyn

28. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

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29. “I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.”

— Agyness Deyn

30. “A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don’t know where they get it from, sometimes.”

— Agyness Deyn

31. “I don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.”

— Agyness Deyn

32. “I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.”

— Agyness Deyn

33. “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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34. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

35. “I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.”

— Agyness Deyn

36. “I’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.”

— Agyness Deyn

37. “I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.”

— Agyness Deyn

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38. “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.”

— Agyness Deyn

39. “I don’t expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.”

— Agyness Deyn