“I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.”
― Florence Pugh
“I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.”
― Florence Pugh
“Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.”
― Florence Pugh
“Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.”
― Florence Pugh
“There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“We tend to kind of write women out of history.”
― Florence Pugh
“It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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 Pugh
“The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.”
― Florence Pugh
“Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?”
― Florence Pugh
“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 Pugh
“’The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.”
― Florence Pugh
“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. I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.”
― Florence Pugh
“I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.”
― Florence Pugh
“I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.”
― Florence Pugh
“I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.”
― Florence Pugh
“I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.”
― Florence Pugh
“I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.”
― Florence Pugh
“The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.”
― Florence Pugh
“In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee. 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.”
― Florence Pugh
“Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves. 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.”
― Florence Pugh
“The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.”
― Florence Pugh
“Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.”
― Florence Pugh
“I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.”
― Florence Pugh
“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!’”
― Florence Pugh
“If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.”
― Florence Pugh
“In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.”
― Florence Pugh
“I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.”
― Florence Pugh
“My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.”
― Florence Pugh
“I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.”
― Florence Pugh
“I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.”
― Florence Pugh
“I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. 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.”
― Florence Pugh
“’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.”
― Florence Pugh
“’Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.”
― Florence Pugh
“I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?”
― Florence Pugh
“What’s important is to listen before you react.”
― Florence Pugh
“My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.”
― Florence Pugh
“If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.”
― Florence Pugh
“Feisty women are my calling!”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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?’”
― Florence Pugh
“I 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.”
― Florence Pugh
“Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.”
― Florence Pugh
“I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.”
― Florence Pugh
“Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.”
― Florence Pugh
“The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.”
― Florence Pugh
“I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?”
― Florence Pugh
“As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.”
― Florence Pugh
“I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.”
― Florence Pugh
“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.”
― Florence Pugh
“What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.”
― Florence Pugh
“I love Le Carre’s writing.”
― Florence Pugh
“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 Pugh
“I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.”
― Florence Pugh
“The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.”
― Florence Pugh
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