In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
FLORENCE PUGHThat’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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.
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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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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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