Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
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I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.
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However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.
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There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
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This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that's celebrated.
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I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
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After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.
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I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
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I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
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I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!'
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It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.
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I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.
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Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
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I'm a massive control freak.
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I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'
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Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
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I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.
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I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.
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I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
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If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
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I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.
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I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
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I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.