We tend to kind of write women out of history.
FLORENCE PUGHAmazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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 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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