Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

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.

The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.