Phoebe Waller-Bridge

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

So much TV is drawn out.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I feel like my home is stage acting.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I'm a massive control freak.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl -…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Being proper and sweet and nice and pleasing is a fucking nightmare. It’s exhausting. As women, we get the message about how…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge