If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
FLORENCE PUGHThe whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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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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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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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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 think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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