That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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.
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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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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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