During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
FLORENCE PUGHI’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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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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 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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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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