Florence Pugh Quotes

Florence Pugh

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 3, 1996

I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, 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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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 can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.

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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 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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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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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

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I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.

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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 don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

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What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. 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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

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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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'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.

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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.

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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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Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

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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. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

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