Top 15 Dree Hemingway Quotes

My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it’s where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home – I love the culture clash of the city.

My favorite question is ‘What do you do?’ I’m like, ‘I’m a walking cliche: I’m a model and an actress.’

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

I don’t have any tattoos – I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can’t stick to one ensemble, I don’t think I could stick to one tattoo.

Once, in an interview with ‘V’ magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn’t ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ every summer.

I’m never going to be cast as a ‘Bond‘ girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don’t ooze sexuality.

When I was 17, I studied at RADA in London for the summer. I wanted to live abroad and to pursue drama, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. I thought I may as well throw myself in at the deep end. My first big role is in ‘Starlet.’

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name ‘Hemingway’ are my English teachers!

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn’t ready to act; I knew I didn’t have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences – it was amazing.

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

I’m a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.

I think people are always like, ‘She‘s a model-turned-actress.’ And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.