I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
FLORENCE PUGHI wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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 found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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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 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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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 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.’
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