The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
FLORENCE PUGHFor 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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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 women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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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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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