I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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 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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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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’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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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 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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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.
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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