Quotes from Agyness Deyn

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

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

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.

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!'

I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

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.

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

I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

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

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.

Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.

I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.

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.

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.

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

I dress like a tomboy.

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.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.

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

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

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.

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