Quotes from Keeley Hazell

The thing about sexiness is that it's been painted as evil.

An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the same in modelling.

I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.

There's this perception that you can't be more than one thing. That if you're dubbed 'sexy' you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it's rubbish.

The fear of not succeeding becomes replaced with the courage to pursue the things that interest you outside of the career you're trying to forge.

Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

I'm just a model. 'Pin-up girl' is out of fashion, but I really like the sound of that.

My ability to model does not have an effect on my ability to be an actress. But casting directors and agents in the U.K. wouldn't give me the time of day.

I absolutely loved working for 'The Sun' on 'Page 3.' It was an amazing job and a catalyst for future opportunities.

Admittedly I agreed with Rupert Murdoch that 'Page 3' is 'old fashioned' and the removal based on that is plausible, but surely 'Page 3' is an institution?

Glamour' makes me think of a girl with bleached-blonde hair and a boob job falling out of Chinawhites on a Wednesday night. It makes the whole thing sound sleazy.

I think I am a feminist in that I believe in equal pay between men and women.

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

Society tells women that you can't be a complex human being with contradicting qualities.

I suppose I came to a realisation that being a serious actress and being on the cover of 'FHM' don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I auditioned twice for 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' - that was a pretty, erm, 'interesting' experience.

The abuse of power in the film and television industry is a tale as old as time. I've lost count of the amount of times I have attended professional meetings with someone in a more powerful position than myself under the pretence of work.

If I wanted to make it out of the hood, which I did, and do something fulfilling with my life then I needed a job that paid me a lot of money. Coincidentally, I found that job being a glamour model.

I love seeing myself on TV. Every time one of my adverts play, I see dollar signs, ha.

Australia is going to do great things for my Instagram feed.

I wanted to act from a young age and it didn't seem like a reality for me growing up.

While a lot of my friends were working in Sainsbury's, I was travelling the world and appearing in newspapers, magazines and attending glamorous photoshoots.

I think I've been in a perpetual quarter-life crisis consistently throughout my twenties.