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" I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Tears
Just
Joy
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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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" 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 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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" Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it. "
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" 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. "
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" You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable. "
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" Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do. "
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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 can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical. "
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" I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist. "
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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. "
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" I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry. "
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" People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people. "
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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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People
" I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally. "
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" So much TV is drawn out. "
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Much
" I'm a massive control freak. "
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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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" 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 think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode. "
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" I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing. "
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" 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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" There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing. "
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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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" I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying. "
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" 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? "
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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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" 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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" 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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