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 hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
-
-
The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
FLORENCE PUGH -
Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
FLORENCE PUGH -
My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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!’
FLORENCE PUGH -
The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
FLORENCE PUGH -
The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
FLORENCE PUGH -
As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
FLORENCE PUGH