Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
FLORENCE PUGHI was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
-
-
As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
FLORENCE PUGH -
If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
FLORENCE PUGH -
My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
FLORENCE PUGH -
It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
FLORENCE PUGH -
When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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.
FLORENCE PUGH -
I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
FLORENCE PUGH -
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?’
FLORENCE PUGH -
I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
FLORENCE PUGH -
The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
FLORENCE PUGH -
Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
FLORENCE PUGH -
If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
FLORENCE PUGH