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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More Florence Pugh Quotes
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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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 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.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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.’
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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