If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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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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 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.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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