When 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.
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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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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 always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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