I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
FLORENCE PUGHMy dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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 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 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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