I think my biggest learning experience is that it’s okay to be who you are – you don’t have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery – of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself – was amazing.

— Dree Hemingway

Dree Hemingway Quotes

I think my biggest learning experience is that it’s okay to be who you are – you don’t have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery – of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself – was amazing.

— Dree Hemingway

I remember having to read ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ and I didn’t want to read it; I didn’t want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

— Dree Hemingway

I really do feel like I know myself, and I’m so happy to be by myself and I’m so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don’t know themselves that well.

— Dree Hemingway

I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson – so I’m setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I’m quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I’d love to have been in those.

— Dree Hemingway

For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it’s a formidable weapon of seduction.

— Dree Hemingway

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

— Dree Hemingway

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

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

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

— Dree Hemingway

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I never go sexy. I’m more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe.

— Dree Hemingway

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

— Dree Hemingway

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

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

I’m the least sexy person in real life.

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

If I were related to Monet, I don’t know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it’s too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they’d tear me apart.

— Dree Hemingway

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.

— Dree Hemingway

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