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.
FLORENCE PUGHWhy shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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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 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 can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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