I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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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 you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 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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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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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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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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