I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
FLORENCE PUGHI am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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 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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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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