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 PUGHI have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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 Le Carre’s writing.
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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.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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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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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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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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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 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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