I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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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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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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What 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.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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