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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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" 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. "

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Surprise

Comedy

Drama

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Being

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it? "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" To me, most comedy is dark comedy. "

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Dark

Most

" I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. "

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

" 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. "

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Romantic

Joy

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Things

Power

" I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode. "

" I'm a massive control freak. "

" I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story. "

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

" 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. "

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