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 PUGHGirls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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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 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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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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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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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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