I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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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 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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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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 love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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