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" I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Think
People
Laugh
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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 think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy. "
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" I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things. "
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Just
" I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen. "
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Bored
Get
" 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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Situation
Afraid
" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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Good
Saying
" 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. "
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Mom
Family
" People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people. "
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Nice
Know
" Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view. "
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Table
Sharing
" I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical. "
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Very
Personal
" 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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" The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world. "
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Losing
Best Friend
Friend
" I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely. "
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" I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on. "
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Audience
Goes
" 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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Personal
People
" 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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" 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. "
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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 really desperately want to write and direct my own movie. "
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" I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions. "
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" I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable. "
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