Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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.
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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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