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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More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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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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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 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 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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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 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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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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