Agyness Deyn Quotes

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

You have to find out how to become the character.

You got to constantly be in character.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.