I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
FLORENCE PUGHMy dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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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 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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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