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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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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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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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