What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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