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

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it."

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image."

Pugh: "I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag."

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

Pugh: "I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though."

Pugh: "The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone."

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense."

Pugh: "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."

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

Pugh: "What's important is to listen before you react."

Pugh: "My brother would have all of his boy mates around and I just used to love climbing in trees and being grubby with them."

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "I was obsessed with being a tomboy. I really wanted to be a boy and I really wanted to wee standing up for many, many years."

Pugh: "We tend to kind of write women out of history."

Pugh: "If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing."

Pugh: "Everybody's story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it's not easy... you have to offer yourself; you can't expect someone to get you."

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

Pugh: "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."

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

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

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

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest."

Pugh: "The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell."

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

Pugh: "I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now."

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

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

Pugh: "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!'"

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

Pugh: "If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women."

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be."

Pugh: "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."

Pugh: "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."

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

Pugh: "I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy."

Pugh: "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.'"

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