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" Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience. "

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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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" You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain. "

" 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. "

" There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing. "

" We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin. "

" The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day. "

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" I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy. "

" I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy. "

" I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family. "

" I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally. "

" 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 part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane. "

" Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it. "

" I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry. "

" I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments. "

" Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view. "

" I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. "

" I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions. "

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" I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else. "

" 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. "

" I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely. "

" To me, most comedy is dark comedy. "

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" I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things. "

" The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world. "

" If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist. "

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" Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights. "

" I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me. "

" I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying. "

" 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. "

" 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. "