Florence Pugh Quotes

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.