I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
FLORENCE PUGHThe women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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 used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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