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.’
FLORENCE PUGHI 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!’
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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