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 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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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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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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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 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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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