Agyness Deyn Quotes

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

I want to carry on modelling for years to come.

Modelling is very two-dimensional. You really don't have to bare anything.

I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.

My whole life had been bands that were men-centric - and that's a great thing, I know a lot about how to handle myself - but I think I was missing something.

I think the fashion industry is limitless. Not everyone sees me as being part of their vision. But the people that have seen me, some of them have seen things in me that I hadn't even seen in myself.

Working and modelling in New York was definitely a life changing experience for me.

I started modelling from the age of 16, and within three years, I was bored and decided to shift to films. But I love modelling because it gave me independence.

The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.

I want to marry after traveling alone, meeting many people, and experiencing a variety of things, and when I'm certain I can be responsible of myself.

I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not something that ever ends, because as you grow as a person, so does your capacity to play different characters. New things come up, new things you want to explore and new stories you want tell about life and your knowledge of things. I don't think there's ever going to be that satisfaction of "and now, comfort."

When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.