The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
FLORENCE PUGHI’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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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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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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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.
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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?’
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