Florence Pugh Quotes

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely and painful, but I think I'm able to overcome them because I realize that the more fiercely you prepare for a role, the more the audience can feel it.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.