I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
FLORENCE PUGHI can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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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 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 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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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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