I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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 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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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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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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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 always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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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.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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