There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
FLORENCE PUGHI think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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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 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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I 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.
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