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.
FLORENCE PUGHYou never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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 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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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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.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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