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.
FLORENCE PUGHEverybody’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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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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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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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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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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 think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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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