The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
FLORENCE PUGHI can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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