When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGHThe women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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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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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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’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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