You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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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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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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That’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.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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.
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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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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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