Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
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I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
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I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
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I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
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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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There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
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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 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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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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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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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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You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a massive control freak.
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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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To me, most comedy is dark comedy.
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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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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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The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
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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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The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.