I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
FLORENCE PUGHSometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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 think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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.
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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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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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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