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.’
FLORENCE PUGHI played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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 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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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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