When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
FLORENCE PUGHThat’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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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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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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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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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 always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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