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

" No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on. "

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

" 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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" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

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

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" Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't. "

" 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 feel liberated being around women who are liberated. "

" I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that. "

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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. "

" There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship. "

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" I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" To me, most comedy is dark comedy. "

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" Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling. "

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

" 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. "