I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
FLORENCE PUGHI am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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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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