Top 50 Florence Pugh Quotes

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

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

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.

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

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

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

I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want 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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

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

Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.

Feisty women are my calling!

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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What’s important is to listen before you react.

‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!’

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.

I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.