Florence Pugh Quotes

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.

Fifty career picks is a huge deal for me.

Had I not been a model at the beginning of my career, probably acting would not have happened.

I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.

If you see my filmography, I have mostly done non-glamorous roles.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.