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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? "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Everything
Women
Woman
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" You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable. "
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" It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior. "
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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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" 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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" I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. "
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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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" 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 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 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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" People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people. "
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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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" I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie. "
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" I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist. "
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Character
Feminist
" 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. "
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You
Want
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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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Afraid
" 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'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions. "
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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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" 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'm a massive control freak. "
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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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" The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world. "
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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'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen. "
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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'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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" 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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