I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 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 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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I’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.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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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.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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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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