When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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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?’
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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