There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
FLORENCE PUGHThroughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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