For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
FLORENCE PUGHI grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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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.
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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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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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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