I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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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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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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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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 can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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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 family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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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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