As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
FLORENCE PUGHIn ‘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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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