I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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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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.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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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 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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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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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