Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Served
Feel
I Think
Related Quotes:
" I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Been
Nobility
Think
" Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Pretending
Know
Doing
" To me, most comedy is dark comedy. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Me
Dark
Most
" I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Find
Story
Love
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Feeling
Real
Will
" I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Female
Character
Feminist
" I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Being
Always
Go
" I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Hug
Feeling
You
" So much TV is drawn out. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
TV
Drawn
Much
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Camera
Friend
Relationship
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Moment
Audience
Heart
" I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Deny
Very
Personal
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Fix
Quick
Think
" The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Losing
Best Friend
Friend
" 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?' "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Say
Situation
Afraid
" 'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
You
Want
Know
" I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Obsessed
Audience
Goes
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Time
Roar
Now
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Energy
Limits
Change
" What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Culture
Aggression
Politeness
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Time
Mom
Family
" I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Think
Cry
Got
" I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Direct
Movie
My Own
" I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Write
Relationships
Just
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Relationship
Trying
Beautiful
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actor
World
Think
" You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Friends
Friends And Family
You
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
You
Want
She
" I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Kind
Feel
End
" 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. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Hair
Skin
Woman