Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
FLORENCE PUGHI have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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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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