I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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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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 tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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 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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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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 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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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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