Top 44 Florence Pugh Quotes

‘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.

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

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.

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

Feisty women are my calling!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?’

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

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.

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.