I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
FLORENCE PUGHSomething that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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 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’s important is to listen before you react.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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