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I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

Agyness Deyn

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Agyness Deyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: February 16
Actor
Fashion Model
Film Actor
Model
Singer
Stage Actor
Littleborough
Greater Manchester
Laura Michelle Hollins
Models
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Positive
Roles
Women
Play
Mean
Something

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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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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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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've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.
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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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I know I'm no Whitney Houston.
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I'm like a boomerang, I always come back.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.
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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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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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I've never had formal drama-school training I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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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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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 don't think a name defines the core of who you are.
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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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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. I just want to do whatever makes me happy...Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun...being a bit daft.
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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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I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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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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Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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