What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
FLORENCE PUGHIf 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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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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 love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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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