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

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" To me, most comedy is dark comedy. "

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" I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally. "

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

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" I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist. "

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" I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. "

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

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

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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's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix. "

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" 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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" I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie. "

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" '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. "

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

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" I feel liberated being around women who are liberated. "

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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. "

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

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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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" 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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" People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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