As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
FLORENCE PUGHWhen 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Feisty women are my calling!
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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