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.
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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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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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