I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
FLORENCE PUGHIf people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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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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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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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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