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?’
FLORENCE PUGHThere’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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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’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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