If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
FLORENCE PUGHThat, 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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 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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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 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 love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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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