Comedy Quotes by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

9 Comedy quotes by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Phoebe Waller‑Bridge’s humor is witty and subversive, turning expectations on their head. In these nine quotes you’ll sense her talent for blending sarcasm with keen social insight.

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To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

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There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

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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 suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

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I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

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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 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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When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the…

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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…

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I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

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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'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.

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Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused…

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I feel like my home is stage acting.

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

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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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I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman…

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Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

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

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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…

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This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their…

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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…

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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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