Top 60 Florence Pugh Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

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.’

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.

If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.

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

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.

Feisty women are my calling!

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.

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.

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.

As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.

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

As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

‘Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.

If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.

Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

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.

What’s important is to listen before you react.

When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.

If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.

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.

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.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?

It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.

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.

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.

The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

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.

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?’

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.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

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

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

I love Le Carre’s writing.

I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

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.

Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.

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

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!’

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.

I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

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.

We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

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.