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.
FLORENCE PUGHI love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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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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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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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 suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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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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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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