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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More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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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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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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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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