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.
FLORENCE PUGHI think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good 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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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