Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
FLORENCE PUGHIf you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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 suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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