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 PUGHThe 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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What 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.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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