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" Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets. "

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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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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" Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?' "

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

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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 always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side. "

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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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" What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write. "

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" 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. "

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" I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical. "

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" I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked. "

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" Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do. "

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" You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable. "

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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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" 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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" When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed. "

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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. "

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

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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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" It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior. "

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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. "

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" You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!' "

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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 see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist. "

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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. "

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" People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people. "

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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 really desperately want to write and direct my own movie. "

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